Jeremiah 17:23

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Summary

But they obeyed not, neither inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, nor receive instruction.

They obeyed

Made

Proverbs 29:1

Nor

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They obeyed

Yet they did not obey or incline their ear. They walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart. They went backward and not forward.

They went back to the evil ways of their ancestors and refused to obey my words. They followed other gods and worshiped them. The nations of Israel and Judah have rejected the covenant that I made to their ancestors.

Tell them: 'It is because your ancestors abandoned me,' says Jehovah. They followed other gods, served them, worshiped them, and abandoned me. They did not obey my law.

Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel says: 'I am about to bring on this city and all its towns the entire disaster that I have declared against it. This is because they have stiffened their necks (vigorously resisted) so as not to heed my words.'

I knew that you would prove to be stubborn. You were as rigid as iron and unyielding as copper.

But the people of Israel rebelled against me in the desert. They did not live by my laws. They rejected my rules. If people obey them, they will live. They dishonored the days to worship me. So I was going to pour out my fury on them in the desert and completely wipe them out.

They refused to pay heed, turned a stubborn shoulder (resisted), and stopped their ears, that they might not hear.

You obstinate men who are uncircumcised in heart and ears. You always resist the Holy Spirit as your fathers did.

Made

He who is often reprimanded and hardens his neck will suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.

Nor

Be warned, O Jerusalem, I will be alienated from you. I will make you desolation, a land not inhabited.

have turned their backs, not their faces to me. I taught them again and again, but they refused to listen and learn.

I have sent all my servants the prophets to you again and again. They said: Turn from your evil ways, do what is right, and do not follow other gods in order to serve them. Then you will live in the land that I gave you and your ancestors. However, you refused to listen to me or obey me.

You hate discipline. You cast (throw) my words behind you.

To receive instruction with wisdom, justice, judgment and integrity.

You say: How I have hated instruction! My heart despised reproof.

Receive my instruction and not silver. Take knowledge rather than choice gold.

I said, show me respect and receive discipline (instruction) (correction)! That way she would not loose her dwelling. This is according to all that I have appointed concerning her. But they rose early to corrupt all their deeds.

This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world. People loved the darkness rather than the light for their works were evil.