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 the LORD lives who brought up the people of Israel out of the north country and out of all the countries where he had driven them.' For I will bring them back to their own land that I gave to their fathers.

I have paid attention and listened, but they have not spoken rightly; no man relents of his evil, saying, 'What have I done?' Everyone turns to his own course, like a horse plunging headlong into battle.

Then they said, "Come, let us make plots against Jeremiah, for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not pay attention to any of his words."

Then the officials said to the king, "Let this man be put to death, for he is weakening the hands of the soldiers who are left in this city, and the hands of all the people, by speaking such words to them. For this man is not seeking the welfare of this people, but their harm."

But Pharaoh said, "Who is the LORD, that I should obey his voice and let Israel go? I do not know the LORD, and moreover, I will not let Israel go."

Because he has stretched out his hand against God and defies the Almighty,

They say to God, 'Depart from us! We do not desire the knowledge of your ways.

"Let us burst their bonds apart and cast away their cords from us."

They scoff and speak with malice; loftily they threaten oppression.

For the look on their faces bears witness against them; they proclaim their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to them! For they have brought evil on themselves.

Now if you are ready when you hear the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, bagpipe, and every kind of music, to fall down and worship the image that I have made, well and good. But if you do not worship, you shall immediately be cast into a burning fiery furnace. And who is the god who will deliver you out of my hands?"

But his citizens hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, 'We do not want this man to reign over us.'

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Crush a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain, yet his folly will not depart from him.

But if you say, 'We will not remain in this land,' disobeying the voice of the LORD your God

"Son of man, say to her, You are a land that is not cleansed or rained upon in the day of indignation.

For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror.