Yet he sent prophets among them to bring them back to the Lord; they testified against them, but they would not listen.
Jeremiah 25:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts: Because you have not obeyed my words, More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Because ye have not heard my words, Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts: Because you have not heard and obeyed My words, American Standard Version (1901) Therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Because ye have not heard my words, Common English Bible Therefore, this is what the LORD of heavenly forces says: Because you haven’t listened to my words, Catholic Public Domain Version Because of this, thus says the Lord of hosts: "Since you have not listened to my words, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Therefore, thus saith the Lord of hosts: Because you have not heard my words: |
Yet he sent prophets among them to bring them back to the Lord; they testified against them, but they would not listen.
Who gave up Jacob to the spoiler and Israel to the robbers? Was it not the Lord, against whom they sinned, in whose ways they would not walk, and whose law they would not obey?
Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: I am now bringing upon this city and upon all its towns all the disaster that I have pronounced against it, because they have stiffened their necks, refusing to hear my words.
I spoke to you in your prosperity, but you said, “I will not listen.” This has been your way from your youth, for you have not obeyed my voice.
Yet you did not listen to me, says the Lord, and so you have provoked me to anger with the work of your hands to your own harm.
I am going to send for all the tribes of the north, says the Lord, even for King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants and against all these nations around; I will utterly destroy them and make them an object of horror and of hissing and an everlasting disgrace.
because they did not heed my words, says the Lord, when I persistently sent to them my servants the prophets, but you would not listen, says the Lord.
Do not be like your ancestors, to whom the former prophets proclaimed, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts: Return from your evil ways and from your evil deeds.’ But they did not hear or heed me, says the Lord.