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Jeremiah 7:13

Good News Translation

You have committed all these sins, and even though I spoke to you over and over again, you refused to listen. You would not answer when I called you.

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I have been calling you, inviting you to come, but you would not listen. You paid no attention to me.

“Why did my people fail to respond when I went to them to save them? Why did they not answer when I called? Am I too weak to save them? I can dry up the sea with a command and turn rivers into a desert, so that the fish in them die for lack of water.

It will be your fate to die a violent death, because you did not answer when I called you or listen when I spoke. You chose to disobey me and do evil.

So I will bring disaster upon them—the very things they are afraid of—because no one answered when I called or listened when I spoke. They chose to disobey me and do evil.”

When I brought their ancestors out of Egypt, I solemnly warned them to obey me, and I have kept on warning the people until this day.

But they did not listen or obey. Instead, everyone continued to be as stubborn and evil as ever. I had commanded them to keep the covenant, but they refused. So I brought on them all the punishments described in it.”

These evil people have refused to obey me. They have been as stubborn and wicked as ever, and have worshiped and served other gods. So then, they will become like these shorts that are no longer any good.

Just as shorts fit tightly around the waist, so I intended all the people of Israel and Judah to hold tightly to me. I did this so that they would be my people and would bring praise and honor to my name; but they would not obey me.”

“For twenty-three years, from the thirteenth year that Josiah son of Amon was king of Judah until this very day, the Lord has spoken to me, and I have never failed to tell you what he said. But you have paid no attention.

and by paying attention to the words of my servants, the prophets, whom I have kept on sending to you. You have never obeyed what they said.

This will happen to them because they did not obey the message that I kept on sending to them through my servants the prophets. They refused to listen.

They turned their backs on me; and though I kept on teaching them, they would not listen and learn.

Jonadab's descendants have obeyed his command not to drink wine, and to this very day none of them drink any. But I have kept on speaking to you, and you have not obeyed me.

I have continued to send you all my servants the prophets, and they have told you to give up your evil ways and to do what is right. They warned you not to worship and serve other gods, so that you could go on living in the land that I gave you and your ancestors. But you would not listen to me or pay any attention to me.

So now, I, the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, will bring on you people of Judah and of Jerusalem all the destruction that I promised. I will do this because you would not listen when I spoke to you, and you would not answer when I called you.”

This present disaster has come on you because you offered sacrifices to other gods and sinned against the Lord by not obeying all his commands.”

I kept sending you my servants the prophets, who told you not to do this terrible thing that I hate.

Pay attention, you foolish and stupid people, who have eyes, but cannot see, and have ears, but cannot hear.

I answered, “Who would listen to me if I spoke to them and warned them? They are stubborn and refuse to listen to your message; they laugh at what you tell me to say.

From the day that your ancestors came out of Egypt until this very day I have kept on sending to you my servants, the prophets.

But the more I called to him, the more he turned away from me. My people sacrificed to Baal; they burned incense to idols.

They insist on turning away from me. They will cry out because of the yoke that is on them, but no one will lift it from them.

The God I serve will reject his people, because they have not listened to him. They will become wanderers among the nations.

Because they did not listen when I spoke, I did not answer when they prayed.

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem! You kill the prophets and stone the messengers God has sent you! How many times I wanted to put my arms around all your people, just as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you would not let me!




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