Jeremiah 6:10

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Summary

To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of the LORD is unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it.

To whom

Jeremiah 5:4

Isaiah 28:9

Isaiah 53:1

Give

Hebrews 11:7

Their ear

Acts 7:51

The word

Delight

Bible References

To whom

And I -- I said, 'Surely these are poor, They have been foolish, For they have not known the way of Jehovah, The judgment of their God.

By whom doth He teach knowledge? And by whom doth He cause to understand the report? The weaned from milk, the removed from breasts,

Who hath given credence to that which we heard? And the arm of Jehovah, On whom hath it been revealed?

Give

In My saying to the wicked: Thou dost surely die; and thou hast not warned him, nor hast spoken to warn the wicked from his wicked way, so that he doth live; he -- the wicked -- in his iniquity dieth, and his blood from thy hand I require.

And he hath seen the sword coming against the land, And hath blown with a trumpet, and hath warned the people,

And having seen many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming about his baptism, he said to them, 'Brood of vipers! who did shew you to flee from the coming wrath?

whom we proclaim, warning every man, and teaching every man, in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus,

By faith Noah, having been divinely warned concerning the things not yet seen, having feared, did prepare an ark to the salvation of his house, through which he did condemn the world, and of the righteousness according to faith he became heir.

Their ear

Be circumcised to Jehovah, And turn aside the foreskins of your heart, O man of Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, Lest My fury go out as fire, and hath burned, And there is none quenching, Because of the evil of your doings.

And they have not hearkened unto Me, Nor inclined their ear, and harden their neck, They have done evil above their fathers.

and Moses speaketh before Jehovah, saying, 'Lo, the sons of Israel have not hearkened unto me, and how doth Pharaoh hear me, and I of uncircumcised lips?'

and Jehovah hath not given to you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, till this day,

And He saith, 'Go, and thou hast said to this people, Hear ye -- to hear, and ye do not understand, And see ye -- to see, and ye do not know.

Who among you giveth ear to this? Attendeth, and heareth afterwards.

Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and in ears! ye do always the Holy Spirit resist; as your fathers -- also ye;

The word

Because from the time I speak I cry out, 'Violence and destruction,' I cry, For the word of Jehovah hath been to me For reproach and for derision all the day.

And Jehovah, God of their fathers, sendeth unto them by the hand of His messengers -- rising early and sending -- for He hath had pity on His people, and on His habitation,

And Amaziah priest of Beth-El sendeth unto Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, 'Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of the house of Israel; the land is not able to bear all his words,

And one of the lawyers answering, saith to him, 'Teacher, these things saying, us also thou dost insult;'

And the chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on him in that hour, and they feared the people, for they knew that against them he spake this simile.

the world is not able to hate you, but me it doth hate, because I testify concerning it that its works are evil.

And those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and they said to him, 'Are we also blind?'

for there shall be a season when the sound teaching they will not suffer, but according to their own desires to themselves they shall heap up teachers -- itching in the hearing,

Delight

But -- in the law of Jehovah is his delight, And in His law he doth meditate by day and by night:

To do Thy pleasure, my God, I have delighted, And Thy law is within my heart.

In Thy statutes I delight myself, I do not forget Thy word.

for I delight in the law of God according to the inward man,