Jeremiah 44:16

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Jeremiah 44:16

As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of the LORD, we will not hearken unto thee.

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but, As Yahweh lives, who brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the countries where he had driven them. I will bring them again into their land that I gave to their fathers.

I listened and heard, but they didn't speak aright: no man repents him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? everyone turns to his course, as a horse that rushes headlong in the battle.

Then they said, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.

Then the princes said to the king, "Please let this man be put to death; because he weakens the hands of the men of war who remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words to them: for this man doesn't seek the welfare of this people, but the hurt."

Pharaoh said, "Who is Yahweh, that I should listen to his voice to let Israel go? I don't know Yahweh, and moreover I will not let Israel go."

Because he has stretched out his hand against God, and behaves himself proudly against the Almighty;

They tell God, 'Depart from us, for we don't want to know about your ways.

"Let's break their bonds apart, and cast their cords from us."

They scoff and speak with malice. In arrogance, they threaten oppression.

The look of their faces testify against them. They parade their sin like Sodom. They don't hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have brought disaster upon themselves.

Now if you are ready whenever you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music to fall down and worship the image which I have made, [well]: but if you don't worship, you shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that god that shall deliver you out of my hands?

But his citizens hated him, and sent an envoy after him, saying, 'We don't want this man to reign over us.'

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Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with grain, yet his foolishness will not be removed from him.

But if you say, We will not dwell in this land; so that you don't obey the voice of Yahweh your God,

Son of man, tell her, You are a land that is not cleansed, nor rained on in the day of indignation.

For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror;