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Jeremiah 25:3

New American Bible - revised edition

Since the thirteenth year of Josiah, son of Amon, king of Judah, to this day—that is, twenty-three years—the word of the Lord has come to me and I spoke to you untiringly, but you would not listen.

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Early the next morning Abraham saddled his donkey, took with him two of his servants and his son Isaac, and after cutting the wood for the burnt offering, set out for the place of which God had told him.

The king of Israel said to his servants, “Do you not know that Ramoth-gilead is ours and we are doing nothing to take it from the king of Aram?”

The Lord warned Israel and Judah by every prophet and seer: Give up your evil ways and keep my commandments and statutes, in accordance with the entire law which I enjoined on your ancestors and which I sent you by my servants the prophets.

Although prophets were sent to them to turn them back to the Lord and to warn them, the people would not listen.

Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem.

In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still a youth, he began to seek after the God of David his father. Then in his twelfth year he began to purify Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the asherahs, and the carved and molten images.

In the eighteenth year of his reign, in order to purify the land and the temple, he sent Shaphan, son of Azaliah, Maaseiah, the ruler of the city, and Joah, son of Joahaz, the chancellor, to restore the house of the Lord, his God.

Early and often the Lord, the God of their ancestors, sent his messengers to them, for he had compassion on his people and his dwelling place.

So I thrust them away to the hardness of their heart; ‘Let them walk in their own machinations.’

This the Lord did. Thick swarms of flies entered the house of Pharaoh and the houses of his servants; throughout Egypt the land was devastated on account of the swarms of flies.

Why spend your money for what is not bread; your wages for what does not satisfy? Only listen to me, and you shall eat well, you shall delight in rich fare.

The word of the Lord came to him in the days of Josiah, son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign,

I warned your ancestors unceasingly from the day I brought them up out of the land of Egypt even to this day: obey my voice.

Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: I will bring upon this city all the evil I have spoken against it, because they have become stubborn and have not obeyed my words.

I spoke to you when you were secure, but you answered, “I will not listen.” This has been your way from your youth, not to listen to my voice.

The Lord kept sending you all his servants the prophets, but you refused to listen or pay attention

and listening to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I kept sending you, even though you do not listen to them,

because they did not listen to my words—oracle of the Lord—even though I kept sending them my servants the prophets, but they would not listen to them—oracle of the Lord.

They turned their backs to me, not their faces; though I taught them persistently, they would not listen or accept correction.

The words of Jonadab, Rechab’s son, by which he commanded his children not to drink wine, have been upheld: to this day they have not drunk wine; they obeyed their ancestor’s command. I, however, have spoken to you time and again. But you did not obey me!

Time and again I sent you all my servants the prophets, saying: Turn away, each of you, from your evil way and reform your actions! Do not follow other gods to serve them that you may remain in the land which I gave you and your ancestors. But you did not pay attention. You did not obey me.

In the fourth year of Jehoiakim, son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the Lord:

Take a scroll and write on it all the words I have spoken to you about Israel, Judah, and all the nations, from the day I first spoke to you, from the days of Josiah, until today.

Though I repeatedly sent you all my servants the prophets, saying: “You must not commit this abominable deed I hate,”

And now, because you have committed all these deeds—oracle of the Lord—because you did not listen, though I spoke to you untiringly, and because you did not answer, though I called you,

From the day that your ancestors left the land of Egypt even to this day, I kept on sending all my servants the prophets to you.

If they hear the trumpet but do not take the warning and a sword attacks and kills them, their blood will be on their own heads.

Do not be like your ancestors to whom the earlier prophets proclaimed: Thus says the Lord of hosts: Turn from your evil ways and from your wicked deeds. But they did not listen or pay attention to me—oracle of the Lord.—

Rising very early before dawn, he left and went off to a deserted place, where he prayed.

But early in the morning he arrived again in the temple area, and all the people started coming to him, and he sat down and taught them.

Whoever belongs to God hears the words of God; for this reason you do not listen, because you do not belong to God.”

proclaim the word; be persistent whether it is convenient or inconvenient; convince, reprimand, encourage through all patience and teaching.




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