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Jeremiah 44:5

The Passion Translation

But you would not listen or pay attention, in order to turn from your wickedness and stop offering incense to other gods.

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If only you had listened to my commands, then peace would have flowed like a river for you and success would wash over you like waves of the sea.

I knew you were stubborn. Your neck is like a rod of iron, and you’re as hard-hearted as brass!

They have turned back to commit again the same sins of their ancestors, who ignored my words. They, too, have chased after foreign gods to serve them. The people of Israel and the people of Judah have broken my covenant that I made with their ancestors.

The people of Judah worship as many gods as they have cities. They have as many altars to burn incense to that shameful one, Baal, as they have streets in Jerusalem.

For I, Yahweh, Commander of Angel Armies, planted you and have decreed disaster against you because of the evil of the people of Israel and the people of Judah. You have provoked me to anger by burning incense to Baal.”

But they refused to listen or change their ways. They lived in the stubbornness of their evil hearts, so I finally enforced the penalties of disobeying this covenant and its terms which I commanded them to keep.’ ”

These evil ones refuse to hear my words, they stubbornly follow the inclinations of their own hearts, and they follow other gods to serve and worship them. So then, they will all become like this worthless, rotten undergarment.

Both the houses of the kings of Judah and the houses of Jerusalem will be defiled like the place of Topheth—all the houses upon whose roofs offerings have been made to the whole host of heaven and drink offerings have been poured out to false gods.’ ”

So Johanan, all the army officers, and all the people refused to obey Yahweh’s command to stay in Judah.

But they did not listen or obey. They followed their own stubborn plans of their evil hearts. They disrespected me and went backward, not forward.

We have not listened to your servants the prophets, who prophesied in your name to our kings, our leaders, our fathers, and all the people of the land.




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