Jeremiah 7: 22 For in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, I did not speak to your fathers or command them concerning burnt offerings and sacrifices. 23 But this command I gave them: ‘Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people. And walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.’ 24 But they did not obey or incline their ear, but walked in their own counsels and the stubbornness of their evil hearts, and went backward and not forward. 25 From the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt to this day, I have persistently sent all my servants the prophets to them, day after day. 26 Yet they did not listen to me or incline their ear, but stiffened their neck. They did worse than their fathers.
Chapter after chapter of Jeremiah hits the reason all these judgments are coming upon Judah and Jerusalem: a refusal to listen to God. He had not been overbearing and demanding, but calling them to turn their hearts and ears to Him, recognizing that He had chosen them, cared for them, and had the best plan for them. But they repeatedly "stiffened their neck", refusing to turn their ears or their hearts to Him, insisting on their own way- the wrong way, the way backward and not forward. How do we do the same today, just to say: "I did it my way."?
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