Jeremiah 44:4

New American Bible - revised edition

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

Cross References

2 Chronicles 36:15

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.

Nehemiah 9:30

You were patient with them for many years, bearing witness against them through your spirit, by means of your prophets; Still they would not listen. Therefore you delivered them into the power of the peoples of the lands.

Nehemiah 9:34

Yes, our kings, our princes, our priests, and our ancestors have not kept your law; They paid no attention to your commandments and the warnings which you gave them.

Jeremiah 16:18

I will at once repay them double for their crime and their sin because they profaned my land with the corpses of their detestable idols, and filled my heritage with their abominations.

Jeremiah 26:5

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

Jeremiah 29:19

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.

Jeremiah 32:33

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

Jeremiah 32:34

Instead they set up their abominations in the house which bears my name in order to defile it.

Jeremiah 32:35

They built high places to Baal in the Valley of Ben-hinnom to sacrifice their sons and daughters to Molech; I never commanded them to do this, nor did it even enter my mind that they would practice this abomination, so as to bring sin upon Judah.

Jeremiah 35:15

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.

Jeremiah 35:17

Now, therefore, says the Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel: I will soon bring upon Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem every evil with which I threatened them because I spoke but they did not obey, I called but they did not answer.

Jeremiah 7:13

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,

Jeremiah 7:17

Do you not see what they are doing in the cities of Judah, in the streets of Jerusalem?

Jeremiah 7:18

The children gather wood, their fathers light the fire, and the women knead dough to make cakes for the Queen of Heaven, while libations are poured out to other gods—all to offend me!

Jeremiah 7:25

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.

Ezekiel 16:36

Thus says the Lord God: Because you poured out your lust and exposed your nakedness in your prostitution with your lovers and your abominable idols, because you gave the life-blood of your children to them,

Ezekiel 16:47

Not only did you walk in their ways and act as abominably as they did, but in a very short time you became more corrupt in all your ways than they were.

Ezekiel 18:31

Cast away from you all the crimes you have committed, and make for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. Why should you die, house of Israel?

Ezekiel 8:10

I went in and looked—figures of all kinds of creeping things and loathsome beasts, all the idols of the house of Israel, pictured around the wall.

Daniel 9:6

We have not obeyed your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to our kings, our princes, our ancestors, and all the people of the land.

Zechariah 7:7

Are these not the words which the Lord proclaimed through the earlier prophets, when Jerusalem and its surrounding cities were inhabited and secure, when the Negeb and the Shephelah were inhabited?

1 Peter 4:3

For the time that has passed is sufficient for doing what the Gentiles like to do: living in debauchery, evil desires, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and wanton idolatry.