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

I hearkened and heard, but they did not speak aright. No man repents 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 smite him with the tongue, and let us not gi

Then the rulers said to the king, Let this man, we pray thee, be put to death, inasmuch as 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 ma

And Pharaoh said, Who is LORD, that I should hearken to his voice to let Israel go? I do not know LORD, and moreover I will not let Israel go.

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

And they say to God, Depart from us, for we do not desire the knowledge of thy ways.

Let us break their bonds apart, and cast away their cords from us.

They scoff, and in wickedness utter oppression. They speak loftily.

The show of their countenance witnesses against them, and they declare their sin as Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have done evil to themselves.

Now if ye be ready that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of music, ye fall down and worship the image which I have made, [well]. But if ye do not worship, ye

But his citizens hated him, and sent an embassy behind him, saying, We do not want this man to reign over us.

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Though thou should pound a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain, yet his foolishness will not depart from him.

But if ye say, We will not dwell in this land, so that ye do not obey the voice of LORD your God,

Son of man, say to her, Thou are a land that is not cleansed, nor rained upon in the day of indignation.

Because if any man is a hearer of the word and not a doer, this resembles a man observing his natural face in a mirror.