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 sons of Israel from the land of the north and from all the countries where He had banished them.’ For I will restore them to their own land which I gave to their fathers.

“I have listened and heard,
They have spoken what is not right;

No man repented of his wickedness,

Saying, ‘What have I done?’
Everyone turned to his course,
Like a horse charging into the battle.

Then they said, “Come and let us devise plans against Jeremiah. Surely the law is not going to be lost to the priest, nor counsel to the sage, nor the divine word to the prophet! Come on and let us strike at him with our tongue, and let us give no heed to any of his words.”

Then the officials said to the king, “Now let this man be put to death, inasmuch as he is

discouraging the men of war who are left in this city and all the people, by speaking such words to them; for this man is not seeking the well-being of this people but rather their harm.”

But Pharaoh said, “Who is the Lord that I should obey His voice to let Israel go? I do not know the Lord, and besides, I will not let Israel go.”

Because he has stretched out his hand against God
And conducts himself arrogantly against the Almighty.

“They say to God, ‘Depart from us!
We do not even desire the knowledge of Your ways.

“Let us tear their fetters apart
And cast away their cords from us!”

They mock and wickedly speak of oppression;
They speak from on high.

The expression of their faces bears witness against them,

And they display their sin like Sodom;
They do not even conceal it.
Woe to them!
For they have brought evil on themselves.

Now if you are ready, at the moment you hear the sound of the horn, flute, lyre, trigon, psaltery and bagpipe and all kinds of music, to fall down and worship the image that I have made, very well. But if you do not worship, you will immediately be cast into the midst of a furnace of blazing fire; and what god is there who can 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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Though you pound a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain,
Yet his foolishness will not depart from him.

But if you are going to say, “We will not stay in this land,” so as not to listen to the voice of the Lord your God,

“Son of man, say to her, ‘You are a land that is not cleansed or 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 who looks at his natural face in a mirror;