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Jeremiah 7:28

New American Bible - revised edition

Say to them: This is the nation which does not listen to the voice of the Lord, its God, or take correction. Faithfulness has disappeared; the word itself is banished from their speech.

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Help, Lord, for no one loyal remains; the faithful have vanished from the children of men.

You hate discipline; you cast my words behind you!

Fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and discipline.

For this is a rebellious people, deceitful children, Children who refuse to listen to the instruction of the Lord;

They have returned to the crimes of their ancestors who refused to obey my words. They also have followed and served other gods; the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken the covenant I made with their ancestors.

though they did not listen or give ear, but stiffened their necks so they could not hear or take correction.

In vain I struck your children; correction they did not take. Your sword devoured your prophets like a ravening lion.

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

Roam the streets of Jerusalem, look about and observe, Search through her squares, to find even one Who acts justly and seeks honesty, and I will pardon her!

Lord, do your eyes not search for honesty? You struck them, but they did not flinch; you laid them low, but they refused correction; They set their faces harder than stone, and refused to return.

I raised up watchmen for them: “Pay attention to the sound of the trumpet!” But they said, “We will not pay attention!”

Arch-rebels are they all, dealers in slander, bronze and iron, all of them, destroyers they are.

Be warned, Jerusalem, or I will be estranged from you, And I will turn you into a wilderness, a land where no one dwells.

Hear the word of the Lord, Israelites, for the Lord has a dispute with the inhabitants of the land: There is no fidelity, no loyalty, no knowledge of God in the land.

It listens to no voice, accepts no correction; In the Lord it has not trusted, nor drawn near to its God.

I said, “Surely now you will fear me, you will accept correction; They cannot fail to see all I have brought upon them.” Yet the more eagerly they have done all their corrupt deeds.




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