but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy.
Jeremiah 44:5 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear to turn from their wickedness, to burn no incense unto other gods. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear to turn from their wickedness, to burn no incense unto other gods. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But they did not listen and obey or submit and consent to turn from their wickedness and burn no incense to other gods. American Standard Version (1901) But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear to turn from their wickedness, to burn no incense unto other gods. Common English Bible But they wouldn’t listen or pay attention or turn from their evil ways. They continued making offerings to other gods. Catholic Public Domain Version But they did not listen, nor did they incline their ear, so that they would convert from their evil, and so that they would not sacrifice to strange gods. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But they heard not nor inclined their ear to turn from their evil ways and not to sacrifice to strange gods. |
but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy.
Yet many years didst thou bear with them, and testifiedst against them by thy spirit through thy prophets: yet would they not give ear: therefore gavest thou them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.
Oh that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea:
Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;
They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, which refused to hear my words; and they are gone after other gods to serve them: the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers.
For according to the number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have ye set up altars to the shameful thing, even altars to burn incense unto Baal.
For the LORD of hosts, that planted thee, hath pronounced evil against thee, because of the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have wrought for themselves in provoking me to anger by offering incense unto Baal.
Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked every one in the stubbornness of their evil heart: therefore I brought upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, but they did them not.
This evil people, which refuse to hear my words, which walk in the stubbornness of their heart, and are gone after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle, which is profitable for nothing.
and the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, which are defiled, shall be as the place of Topheth, even all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense unto all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink offerings unto other gods.
So Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces, and all the people, obeyed not the voice of the LORD, to dwell in the land of Judah.
But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward and not forward.
neither have we hearkened unto thy servants the prophets, which spake in thy name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.
As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto the Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.