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Jeremiah 7:25

New American Bible - revised edition

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.

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

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.

say to me: Son of man, I am sending you to the Israelites, a nation of rebels who have rebelled against me; they and their ancestors have been in revolt against me to this very day.

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,

But they were contemptuous and rebelled against you: they cast your law behind their backs. They murdered your prophets who bore witness against them to bring them back to you: they were guilty of great insults.

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.

From the time of our ancestors even to this day our guilt has been great, and for our wicked deeds we have been delivered, we and our kings and our priests, into the hands of the kings of foreign lands, to the sword, to captivity, to pillage, and to disgrace, as is the case today.

Remember and do not forget how you angered the Lord, your God, in the wilderness. From the day you left the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious toward the Lord.

Therefore, the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send to them prophets and apostles; some of them they will kill and persecute’

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

What more could be done for my vineyard that I did not do? Why, when I waited for the crop of grapes, did it yield rotten grapes?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

I the Lord have been your God, since the land of Egypt; I will again have you live in tents, as on feast days.

I who raised up prophets among your children, and nazirites among your young men. Is this not so, Israelites?— oracle of the Lord.

Since the days of your ancestors you have turned aside from my statutes and have not kept them. Return to me, that I may return to you, says the Lord of hosts. But you say, “Why should we return?”

My people have their mind set on apostasy; though they call on God in unison, he shall not raise them up.




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