but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, until there was no remedy.
Jeremiah 44:5 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) But they didn't listen, nor inclined their ear to turn from their wickedness, to burn no incense to other gods. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear to turn from their wickedness, to burn no incense unto other gods. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But they did not listen and obey or submit and consent to turn from their wickedness and burn no incense to other gods. American Standard Version (1901) But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear to turn from their wickedness, to burn no incense unto other gods. Common English Bible But they wouldn’t listen or pay attention or turn from their evil ways. They continued making offerings to other gods. Catholic Public Domain Version But they did not listen, nor did they incline their ear, so that they would convert from their evil, and so that they would not sacrifice to strange gods. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But they heard not nor inclined their ear to turn from their evil ways and not to sacrifice to strange gods. |
but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, until there was no remedy.
Yet many years did you bear with them, and testified against them by your Spirit through your prophets: yet would they not give ear: therefore gave you them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.
Oh that you had listened to my mitzvot! then had your shalom been as a river, and your righteousness as the waves of the sea:
Because I knew that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your brow brass;
They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, who refused to hear my words; and they are gone after other gods to serve them: the house of Yisra'el and the house of Yehudah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers.
For according to the number of your cities are your gods, Yehudah; and according to the number of the streets of Yerushalayim have you set up altars to the shameful thing, even altars to burn incense to Ba`al.
For the LORD of Armies, who planted you, has pronounced evil against you, because of the evil of the house of Yisra'el and of the house of Yehudah, which they have worked for themselves in provoking me to anger by offering incense to Ba`al.
Yet they didn't obey, nor turn their ear, but walked everyone in the stubbornness of their evil heart: therefore I brought on them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, but they didn't do them.
This evil people, who refuse to hear my words, who walk in the stubbornness of their heart, and are gone after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this belt, which is profitable for nothing.
and the houses of Yerushalayim, and the houses of the kings of Yehudah, which are defiled, shall be as the place of Tofet, even all the houses on whose roofs they have burned incense to all the army of the sky, and have poured out drink offerings to other gods.
So Yochanan the son of Kareach, and all the captains of the forces, and all the people, didn't obey the voice of the LORD, to dwell in the land of Yehudah.
But they didn't listen nor turn their ear, but walked in [their own] counsels [and] in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.
neither have we listened to your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.
They called to them, so they went from them. They sacrificed to the Ba`alim, and burned incense to engraved images.