Jeremiah 7:26 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²⁶ yet they did not listen to me, or incline their ear, but stiffened their neck. They did worse than their fathers.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁶ yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁶ Yet the people would not listen to and obey Me or bend their ears [to Me], but stiffened their necks and behaved worse than their fathers.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁶ yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff: they did worse than their fathers.

Common English Bible

²⁶ But they didn’t listen to me or pay attention; they were stubborn and did more harm than their ancestors.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁶ But they have not listened to me, nor have they inclined their ear. Instead, they have stiffened their neck, and they have behaved worse than their fathers did.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁶ And they have not hearkened to me nor inclined their ear: but have hardened their neck and have done worse than their fathers.

Jeremiah 7:26 Cross References

1 Kings 14:22

And Judah did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they committed, more than all that their fathers had done.

1 Kings 14:9

but you have done evil above all that were before you and have gone and made for yourself other gods, and molten images, provoking me to anger, and have cast me behind your back;

2 Kings 17:14

But they would not listen, but were stubborn, as their fathers had been, who did not believe in the Lord their God.

2 Kings 17:15

They despised his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and the warnings which he gave them. They went after false idols, and became false, and they followed the nations that were round about them, concerning whom the Lord had commanded them that they should not do like them.

2 Chronicles 30:8

Do not now be stiff-necked as your fathers were, but yield yourselves to the Lord, and come to his sanctuary, which he has sanctified for ever, and serve the Lord your God, that his fierce anger may turn away from you.

2 Chronicles 33:10

The Lord spoke to Manasseh and to his people, but they gave no heed.

2 Chronicles 33:23

And he did not humble himself before the Lord, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself, but this Amon incurred guilt more and more.

Nehemiah 9:29

And thou didst warn them in order to turn them back to thy law. Yet they acted presumptuously and did not obey thy commandments, but sinned against thy ordinances, by the observance of which a man shall live, and turned a stubborn shoulder and stiffened their neck and would not obey.

Proverbs 29:1

He who is often reproved, yet stiffens his neck, will suddenly be broken beyond healing.

Isaiah 48:4

Because I know that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew and your forehead brass,

Isaiah 5:4

What more was there to do for my vineyard, that I have not done in it? When I looked for it to yield grapes, why did it yield wild grapes?

Jeremiah 11:8

Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but every one walked in the stubbornness of his evil heart. Therefore I brought upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, but they did not.”

Jeremiah 16:12

and because you have done worse than your fathers, for behold, every one of you follows his stubborn evil will, refusing to listen to me;

Jeremiah 17:23

Yet they did not listen or incline their ear, but stiffened their neck, that they might not hear and receive instruction.

Jeremiah 19:15

“Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I am bringing upon this city and upon all its towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it, because they have stiffened their neck, refusing to hear my words.”

Jeremiah 22:21

I spoke to you in your prosperity, but you said, ‘I will not listen.’ This has been your way from your youth, that you have not obeyed my voice.

Jeremiah 25:3

“For twenty-three years, from the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, to this day, the word of the Lord has come to me, and I have spoken persistently to you, but you have not listened.

Jeremiah 25:7

Yet you have not listened to me, says the Lord, that you might provoke me to anger with the work of your hands to your own harm.

Jeremiah 26:5

and to heed the words of my servants the prophets whom I send to you urgently, though you have not heeded,

Jeremiah 29:19

because they did not heed my words, says the Lord, which I persistently sent to you by my servants the prophets, but you would not listen, says the Lord.’ —

Jeremiah 3:13

Only acknowledge your guilt, that you rebelled against the Lord your God and scattered your favors among strangers under every green tree, and that you have not obeyed my voice, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 32:23

and they entered and took possession of it. But they did not obey thy voice or walk in thy law; they did nothing of all thou didst command them to do. Therefore thou hast made all this evil come upon them.

Jeremiah 34:14

‘At the end of six years each of you must set free the fellow Hebrew who has been sold to you and has served you six years; you must set him free from your service.’ But your fathers did not listen to me or incline their ears to me.

Jeremiah 35:15

I have sent to you all my servants the prophets, sending them persistently, saying, ‘Turn now every one of you from his evil way, and amend your doings, and do not go after other gods to serve them, and then you shall dwell in the land which I gave to you and your fathers.’ But you did not incline your ear or listen to me.

Jeremiah 35:17

Therefore, thus says the Lord, the God of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I am bringing on Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evil that I have pronounced against them; because I have spoken to them and they have not listened, I have called to them and they have not answered.”

Jeremiah 44:16

“As for the word which you have spoken to us in the name of the Lord, we will not listen to you.

Jeremiah 5:3

O Lord, do not thy eyes look for truth? Thou hast smitten them, but they felt no anguish; thou hast consumed them, but they refused to take correction. They have made their faces harder than rock; they have refused to repent.

Jeremiah 6:10

To whom shall I speak and give warning, that they may hear? Behold, their ears are closed, they cannot listen; behold, the word of the Lord is to them an object of scorn, they take no pleasure in it.

Jeremiah 6:17

I set watchmen over you, saying, ‘Give heed to the sound of the trumpet!’ But they said, ‘We will not give heed.’

Jeremiah 7:24

But they did not obey or incline their ear, but walked in their own counsels and the stubbornness of their evil hearts, and went backward and not forward.

Jeremiah 9:13

And the Lord says: “Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, or walked in accord with it,

Ezekiel 12:2

“Son of man, you dwell in the midst of a rebellious house, who have eyes to see, but see not, who have ears to hear, but hear not;

Ezekiel 12:3

for they are a rebellious house. Therefore, son of man, prepare for yourself an exile's baggage, and go into exile by day in their sight; you shall go like an exile from your place to another place in their sight. Perhaps they will understand, though they are a rebellious house.

Ezekiel 20:30

Wherefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord God: Will you defile yourselves after the manner of your fathers and go astray after their detestable things?

Daniel 9:6

we have not listened to thy servants the prophets, who spoke in thy name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.

Hosea 11:7

My people are bent on turning away from me; so they are appointed to the yoke, and none shall remove it.

Zechariah 7:11

But they refused to hearken, and turned a stubborn shoulder, and stopped their ears that they might not hear.

Malachi 3:7

From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from my statutes and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you, says the Lord of hosts. But you say, ‘How shall we return?’

Matthew 21:38

But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, ‘This is the heir; come, let us kill him and have his inheritance.’

Matthew 23:32

Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers.

Acts 7:51

“You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so do you.

Romans 2:5

But by your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God's righteous judgment will be revealed.

Deuteronomy 8:20

Like the nations that the Lord makes to perish before you, so shall you perish, because you would not obey the voice of the Lord your God.