Jeremiah 6:16

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Summary

Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.

Stand

And walk

We will

Matthew 21:28

General references

Bible References

Stand

But My people have forgotten Me, to a vain thing they make perfume, And they cause them to stumble in their ways -- paths of old, To walk in paths -- a way not raised up,

Remember days of old -- Understand the years of many generations -- Ask thy father, and he doth tell thee; Thine elders, and they say to thee:

Declare to me, thou whom my soul hath loved, Where thou delightest, Where thou liest down at noon, For why am I as one veiled, By the ranks of thy companions?

To the law and to the testimony! If not, let them say after this manner, 'That there is no dawn to it.'

Remember ye the law of Moses My servant, That I did command him in Horeb, For all Israel -- statutes and judgments.

'Abraham saith to him, They have Moses and the prophets, let them hear them;

'Ye search the Writings, because ye think in them to have life age-during, and these are they that are testifying concerning me;

and these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, they received the word with all readiness of mind, every day examining the Writings whether those things were so;

What, then, shall we say Abraham our father, to have found, according to flesh?

that ye may not become slothful, but followers of those who through faith and patient endurance are inheriting the promises.

for in this were the elders testified of;

Therefore, we also having so great a cloud of witnesses set around us, every weight having put off, and the closely besetting sin, through endurance may we run the contest that is set before us,

And walk

But this thing I commanded them, saying: Hearken to My voice, And I have been to you for God, And ye -- ye are to Me for a people, And have walked in all the way that I command you, So that it is well for you.

O house of Jacob, come, And we walk in the light of Jehovah.'

And thine ear heareth a word behind thee, Saying, 'This is the way, go ye in it,' When ye turn to the right, And when ye turn to the left.

Jesus, therefore, said to them, 'Yet a little time is the light with you; walk while ye have the light, that darkness may not overtake you; and he who is walking in the darkness hath not known where he goeth;

if these things ye have known, happy are ye, if ye may do them;

as, then, ye did receive Christ Jesus the Lord, in him walk ye,

We will

Withhold thy foot from being unshod, And thy throat from thirst, And thou sayest, 'It is incurable, No, for I have loved strangers, and after them I go.'

And they have said, It is incurable, For after our own devices we do go, And each the stubbornness of his evil heart we do.

I have spoken unto thee in thine ease, Thou hast said, 'I do not hearken,' This is thy way from thy youth, For thou hast not hearkened to My voice.

The word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of Jehovah -- we are not hearkening unto thee;

'And what think ye? A man had two children, and having come to the first, he said, Child, go, to-day be working in my vineyard.'

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Thy ways, O Jehovah, cause me to know, Thy paths teach Thou me.

Then understandest thou righteousness, And judgment, and uprightness -- every good path.

and Jehovah thy God doth declare to us the way in which we walk, and the thing that we do.'

and no one having drunk old wine, doth immediately wish new, for he saith, The old is better.'