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 in that time they will affirm them with 'I swear as surely as the Lord lives who delivered the people of Israel from the land of the north and from all the other lands where he had banished them.' At that time I will bring them back to the land I gave their ancestors."

I have listened to them very carefully, but they do not speak honestly. None of them regrets the evil he has done. None of them says, "I have done wrong!" All of them persist in their own wayward course like a horse charging recklessly into battle.

Then some people said, "Come on! Let us consider how to deal with Jeremiah! There will still be priests to instruct us, wise men to give us advice, and prophets to declare God's word. Come on! Let's bring charges against him and get rid of him! Then we will not need to pay attention to anything he says."

So these officials said to the king, "This man must be put to death. For he is demoralizing the soldiers who are left in the city as well as all the other people there by these things he is saying. This man is not seeking to help these people but is trying to harm them."

But Pharaoh said, "Who is the Lord that I should obey him by releasing Israel? I do not know the Lord, and I will not release Israel!"

for he stretches out his hand against God, and vaunts himself against the Almighty,

So they say to God, 'Turn away from us! We do not want to know your ways.

They say, "Let's tear off the shackles they've put on us! Let's free ourselves from their ropes!"

They mock and say evil things; they proudly threaten violence.

The look on their faces testifies to their guilt; like the people of Sodom they openly boast of their sin. Too bad for them! For they bring disaster on themselves.

Now if you are ready, when you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, trigon, harp, pipes, and all kinds of music, you must bow down and pay homage to the statue that I had made. If you don't pay homage to it, you will immediately be thrown into the midst of the furnace of blazing fire. Now, who is that god who can rescue you from my power?"

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

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If you should pound the fool in the mortar among the grain with the pestle, his foolishness would not depart from him.

"You must not disobey the Lord your God by saying, 'We will not stay in this land.'

"Son of man, say to her: 'You are a land that receives no rain or showers in the day of my anger.'

For if someone merely listens to the message and does not live it out, he is like someone who gazes at his own face in a mirror.