Zechariah 7:11 - Tree of Life Version “But they refused to pay attention. They stubbornly turned their backs and stopped their ears from hearing. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But they refused to listen and turned a rebellious and stubborn shoulder and made heavy and dull their ears that they might not hear. American Standard Version (1901) But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear. Common English Bible But they refused to pay attention. They turned a cold shoulder and stopped listening. Catholic Public Domain Version But they were not willing to pay attention, and they turned aside their shoulder to depart, and they pressed upon their ears, so that they would not hear. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But they would not hearken, and they turned away the shoulder to depart: and they stopped their ears, not to hear. |
They refused to obey and did not remember Your wonders that You did among them. Instead, they became stiff-necked and in their rebellion, appointed a leader in order to return to their bondage. But You are a God of forgiveness, merciful and compassionate, slow to anger, and abounding in love. Therefore You did not abandon them,
“Nonetheless they became contentious and rebelled against You. They cast Your Torah behind their back. They killed Your prophets who warned them to return to You; they committed appalling blasphemies.
“You warned them in order to turn them back to Your Torah, but they became insolent and disobeyed Your mitzvot. They sinned against Your ordinances—those by which if a man does them he will live. They turned a stubborn shoulder and stiffened their neck, and would not listen.
So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said to him, “This is what Adonai, the God of the Hebrews, says: How long would you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Let My people go, so they may serve Me.
To whom He said, “Here is rest, give rest to the weary, here is repose”— but they would not listen.
Make the heart of this people fat, their ears heavy, and their eyes blind. Else they would see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and return, and be healed.”
I will fate you to the sword, and all of you will kneel to slaughter. For I called, but you did not answer, I spoke, but you did not hear. So you did what was evil in My sight, and chose what I did not delight in.”
They have turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers who refused to hear My words. They have gone after other gods to serve them. “The house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken My covenant which I made with their fathers.”
This wicked people, who refuse to hear My words, who walk in the stubbornness of their own heart, and go after other gods to serve them and worship them, will be just like this waistband—worth nothing at all.
Yet they did not listen or incline their ear, but stiffened their neck, not hearing or accepting correction.
“But if you do not listen to Me to keep Yom Shabbat holy, by not bearing a burden or entering through the gates of Jerusalem on Yom Shabbat, then I will set its gates on fire, and it will consume the citadels of Jerusalem, and not be quenched.’”
thus says Adonai-Tzva’ot, the God of Israel: “I am about to bring on this city and on all her towns the whole disaster that I pronounced against it, because they stiffened their neck, rather than hearing My words.”
“I have sent also to you all My servants the prophets, sending them early and often, saying: ‘Return you now every man from his evil way, and amend your doings, and go not after other gods to serve them, and you will dwell in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers; but you have not inclined your ear, nor listened to Me.
I will also punish him and his offspring and his servants for their iniquity, and I will bring on them, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem and the people of Judah all the calamity that I have pronounced against them—but they did not listen.”
So I have this day declared it to you, but you will not obey the voice of Adonai your God in anything for which He has sent me to you.
“As for the word that you spoke to us in the Name of Adonai, we are not going to listen to you!
‘Hear this you foolish people who have no understanding, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear.
Adonai, do Your eyes not look for faithfulness? You struck them, but they did not grieve. You disciplined them, but they refused correction. They made their faces harder than stone. They refused to return.
But they did not listen or pay attention. Instead they followed their own counsel, in the stubbornness of their evil heart. They have gone backward and not forward,
they did not listen to Me or pay attention. Rather, they stiffened their neck, doing more evil than their fathers.
Why then has this people—Jerusalem— turned away in perpetual backsliding? They cling to deceit; they refuse to return.
so I may take hold of the house of Israel in their hearts. For they have all become estranged from Me through their idols.’”
But the house of Israel will not be willing to listen to you, for they are not willing to listen to Me. Surely the whole house of Israel has a hard forehead and a stubborn heart.
She has rebelled against My ordinances by doing wickedness worse than the nations, and against My decrees worse than the surrounding countries. For they have rejected My ordinances and as for My decrees, they have not walked in them.”
we have sinned; we have committed iniquity; we have acted wickedly; we have rebelled; we have turned away from Your mitzvot and from Your rulings.
For Israel is stubborn like a stubborn cow. Now Adonai will pasture them like a lamb in the open field.
She did not obey; she took no correction. She did not trust in Adonai. She did not draw near to her God.
Do not be like your fathers to whom the former prophets cried out saying, thus says Adonai-Tzva’ot, ‘Turn back now from your evil ways and from your evil deeds.’ But they did not listen or pay attention to Me.’ It is a declaration of Adonai.
For the heart of this people has become dull, their ears can barely hear, and they have shut their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts. Then they would turn back, and I would heal them.’
“O you stiff-necked people! You uncircumcised of heart and ears! You always resist the Ruach ha-Kodesh; just as your fathers did, you do as well.
But they covered their ears; and crying out with a loud voice, they rushed at him with one impulse.
See to it that you do not refuse the One who is speaking! For if they did not escape when they refused the One who was warning them on earth, much less will we escape if we reject the One who warns us from heaven.