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Jeremiah 7:28

Bible in Basic English 1965

And you are to say to them, This is the nation which has not given ear to the voice of their God, or taken his teaching to heart: good faith is dead and is cut off from their mouths.

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Everyone says false words to his neighbour: their tongues are smooth in their talk, and their hearts are full of deceit.

Seeing that you have no desire for my teaching, turning your back on my words.

The fear of the Lord is the start of knowledge: but the foolish have no use for wisdom and teaching.

For they are an uncontrolled people, false-hearted, who will not give ear to the teaching of the Lord:

They are turned back to the sins of their fathers, who would not give ear to my words; they have gone after other gods and become their servants: the people of Israel and the people of Judah have not kept the agreement which I made with their fathers.

But they gave no attention and would not give ear, but they made their necks stiff so that they might not give ear and might not get teaching.

I gave your children blows to no purpose; they got no good from training: your sword has been the destruction of your prophets, like a death-giving lion.

And they have been turning their backs and not their faces to me: and though I was their teacher, getting up early and teaching them, their ears were not open to teaching.

Go quickly through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and get knowledge, and make a search in her wide places if there is a man, if there is one in her who is upright, who keeps faith; and she will have my forgiveness.

O Lord, do not your eyes see good faith? you have given them punishment, but they were not troubled; you have sent destruction on them, but they did not take your teaching to heart: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they would not come back.

And I put watchmen over you, saying, Give attention to the sound of the horn; but they said, We will not give attention.

All of them are turned away, going about with false stories; they are brass and iron: they are all workers of deceit.

Undergo teaching, O Jerusalem, or my soul will be turned away from you, and I will make you a waste, an unpeopled land.

Give ear to the word of the Lord, O children of Israel; for the Lord has a cause against the people of this land, because there is no good faith in it, and no mercy and no knowledge of God in the land.

She gave no attention to the voice, she had no use for teaching, she put no faith in the Lord, she did not come near to her God.

I said, Certainly you will go in fear of me, and come under my training, so that whatever I may send on her may not be cut off before her eyes: but they got up early and made all their works evil.




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