Jeremiah 7:26

God's Word

But you didn’t obey me or pay attention to me. You became impossible to deal with, and you were worse than your ancestors.

Cross References

1 Kings 14:22

The people of Judah did what the Lord considered evil. Their sins made him more angry than anything their ancestors had done.

1 Kings 14:9

You have done more evil things than everyone before you. You made other gods, metal idols, for yourself. You made me furious and turned your back to me.

2 Kings 17:14

But they refused to listen. They became as impossible to deal with as their ancestors who refused to trust the Lord their God.

2 Kings 17:15

They rejected his decrees, the promise  he made to their ancestors, and the warnings he had given them. They went after worthless idols and became as worthless as the idols. They behaved like the nations around them, although the Lord had commanded them not to do that.

2 Chronicles 30:8

Don’t be impossible to deal with like your ancestors. Reach out for the Lord. Come to his holy place that he made holy forever. Serve the Lord your God, and he will turn his burning anger away from you.

2 Chronicles 33:10

When the Lord spoke to Manasseh and his people, they wouldn’t even pay attention.

2 Chronicles 33:23

He didn’t humble himself in front of the Lord as his father Manasseh had humbled himself. Instead, Amon continued to sin.

Nehemiah 9:29

You warned them in order to bring them back to your teachings, but they became arrogant and would not obey your commandments. They sinned by not following your regulations. If anyone follows them, he will find life in them. But they gave you the cold shoulder, became impossible to deal with, and wouldn’t listen.

Proverbs 29:1

A person who will not bend after many warnings will suddenly be broken beyond repair.

Isaiah 48:4

I know that you are stubborn. Like iron, you are hardheaded. Like bronze, nothing gets through your thick skull.

Isaiah 5:4

What more could have been done for my vineyard than what I have already done for it? When I waited for it to produce good grapes, why did it produce only sour, wild grapes?

Jeremiah 11:8

But they didn’t obey me or pay attention to me. They followed their own stubborn, evil ways. So I punished them, because they did not keep all the terms of the promise, the terms that I commanded them to keep.”

Jeremiah 16:12

You have done worse than your ancestors. All of you are following your own stubborn, evil ways that keep you from obeying me.

Jeremiah 17:23

Your ancestors did not obey me or pay attention to me. They were impossible to deal with and would not listen or accept discipline.

Jeremiah 19:15

“This is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: I’m going to bring on this city and on all its towns the disasters that I threatened. They’ve become impossible to deal with, and they refuse to obey me.”

Jeremiah 22:21

I spoke to you when you were prosperous, but you said that you wouldn’t listen. This is how you’ve been ever since you were young. You don’t listen to me.

Jeremiah 25:3

“For 23 years, from the time that Josiah, son of Amon, was in his thirteenth year as king of Judah until today, the Lord continued to speak his word to me. So I have spoken to you again and again, but you have not listened.

Jeremiah 25:7

But you haven’t listened to me, declares the Lord. You have made me furious about the idols your hands have shaped and ⌞have brought⌟ harm upon yourselves.’

Jeremiah 26:5

Suppose you don’t listen to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I sent to you again and again, even though you didn’t listen.

Jeremiah 29:19

They didn’t listen to me, declares the Lord. I sent them my servants the prophets again and again, but they refused to listen, declares the Lord.

Jeremiah 3:13

Admit that you’ve done wrong! You have rebelled against the Lord your God. You have given yourself to strangers under every large tree. You have not obeyed me,’ declares the Lord.

Jeremiah 32:23

They entered and took possession of it. However, they refused to obey you or to follow your teachings. They didn’t do anything you commanded them to do, so you brought all this disaster on them.

Jeremiah 34:14

‘Every seven years each of you must free any Hebrews who sold themselves to you. When they have served you for six years, you must set them free.’ But your ancestors refused to obey me or listen to me.

Jeremiah 35:15

I have sent all my servants the prophets to you again and again. They said, “Turn from your evil ways, do what is right, and don’t follow other gods in order to serve them. Then you will live in the land that I gave you and your ancestors.” However, you refused to listen to me or obey me.

Jeremiah 35:17

“ ‘This is what the Lord God of Armies, the God of Israel, says: I am going to bring on Judah and on all those who live in Jerusalem all the disasters that I threatened. I have spoken to them, but they didn’t listen. I called to them, but they didn’t answer.’ ”

Jeremiah 44:16

“We won’t listen to the message that you have spoken to us in the Lord’s name.

Jeremiah 5:3

Lord, your eyes look for the truth. You strike these people, but they don’t feel it. You crush them, but they refuse to be corrected. They are more stubborn than rocks. They refuse to turn back.

Jeremiah 6:10

Whom can I speak to? Whom can I give a warning to? Who will listen? Their ears are plugged, and they aren’t able to pay attention. When the Lord speaks his word to them, they show contempt for it and object to it.

Jeremiah 6:17

I posted watchmen over you. Pay attention to the sound of the ram’s horn. But you said that you wouldn’t pay attention.

Jeremiah 7:24

But they didn’t obey me or pay attention to me. They followed their own plans and their stubborn, evil ways. They went backward and not forward.

Jeremiah 9:13

The Lord answered, “They’ve abandoned my teachings that I placed in front of them. They didn’t obey me, and they didn’t follow them.

Ezekiel 12:2

“Son of man, you are living among rebellious people. They have eyes, but they can’t see. They have ears, but they can’t hear because they are rebellious people.

Ezekiel 12:3

“Son of man, pack your bags as if you were going into exile. Let the people see you leave in the daylight. March like a captive from your place to another place as they watch. Maybe they will understand, even though they are rebellious people.

Ezekiel 20:30

“Tell the nation of Israel, ‘This is what the Almighty Lord says: Will you dishonor yourselves the way your ancestors did? Will you chase their detestable idols like a prostitute?

Daniel 9:6

We haven’t listened to your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to our kings, leaders, ancestors, and all the common people.

Hosea 11:7

My people are determined to turn away from me. Even if they call to the Most High, he will not pardon them.

Zechariah 7:11

“But people refused to pay attention. They shrugged their shoulders at me and shut their ears so that they couldn’t hear.

Malachi 3:7

Since the time of your ancestors you have turned away from my laws and have not followed them. Return to me, and I will return to you,” says the Lord of Armies. “But you ask, ‘How can we return?’

Matthew 21:38

“When the workers saw his son, they said to one another, ‘This is the heir. Let’s kill him and get his inheritance.’

Matthew 23:32

Go ahead, finish what your ancestors started!

Acts 7:51

“How stubborn can you be? How can you be so heartless and disobedient? You’re just like your ancestors. They always opposed the Holy Spirit, and so do you!

Romans 2:5

Since you are stubborn and don’t want to change the way you think and act, you are adding to the anger that God will have against you on that day when God vents his anger. At that time God will reveal that his decisions are fair.

Deuteronomy 8:20

The Lord is going to destroy other nations as you enter the land. You will be destroyed like them if you don’t obey the Lord your God.