Jeremiah 25:4 Cross References - NSB

⁴ »Jehovah has sent all his servants the prophets to you. Yet, you have not listened or paid attention to them.«

¹⁵ Jehovah the God of their ancestors repeatedly sent messages through his prophets because he wanted to spare his people and his dwelling place. ¹⁶ They mocked God’s messengers. They despised his words, and made fun of his prophets until Jehovah became angry with his people. He could no longer heal them.

²⁴ »Yet they did not obey or incline their ear. They walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart. They went backward and not forward. ²⁵ »Since the day your fathers came out of the land of Egypt until this day, I have sent you all my servants the prophets, daily rising early and sending them. ²⁶ »Yet they did not listen to me or incline their ear. Instead they stiffened their neck (became stubborn). They did more evil than their fathers.

⁷ »I solemnly warned your fathers in the day that I brought them up from the land of Egypt. Even to this day I persistently warned them, saying: ‘Listen to my voice.’ ⁸ »Yet they did not obey or incline their ear (pay attention). They walked, each one, in the stubbornness of his evil heart! Therefore I brought on them all the words of the covenant I commanded them to do. But they did not do it.’« ⁹ Jehovah said to me: »A conspiracy has been found among the men of Judah and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem. ¹⁰ »They went back to the evil ways of their ancestors and refused to obey my words. They followed other gods and worshiped them. The nations of Israel and Judah have rejected the covenant that I made to their ancestors.«

¹⁰ »The people of Judah are evil and stubborn. They do not listen to me. They do whatever they want and even worship other gods. When I am finished with these people, they will be good for nothing, just like this linen belt. ¹¹ »This belt is tight around your waist, and that is how tightly I held onto the kingdoms of Israel and Judah. I wanted them to be my people. I wanted to make them famous, so that other nations would praise and honor me, but they refused to obey me.

¹² »You have done worse than your ancestors. All of you are following your own stubborn, evil ways that keep you from listening (obeying) to me.

²³ »Yet they did not listen or incline their ears. They stiffened their necks in order not to listen or take correction.

¹² »But they will answer, It is useless! We will live the way we want to. We will go our own stubborn, evil ways.

¹⁵ »Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel says: ‘I am about to bring on this city and all its towns the entire disaster that I have declared against it. This is because they have stiffened their necks (vigorously resisted) so as not to heed my words.’«

³ »Jehovah continued to speak his word to me for twenty-three years. This covered the time from when Josiah, son of Amon, was in his thirteenth year as king of Judah until today. I have spoken to you again and again, but you have not listened.

⁷ »‘You have not listened to me,’ declares Jehovah. ‘You have made me furious about the idols your hands have shaped. You have brought harm upon yourselves.’

¹⁹ ‘They did not listen to me,’ says Jehovah. ‘I sent them my servants the prophets again and again, but they refused to listen,’ says Jehovah.

³³ have turned their backs, not their faces to me. I taught them again and again, but they refused to listen and learn.

²¹ I spoke to you in your prosperity. But you said: ‘I will not listen!’ This has been your practice from your youth, that you have not obeyed my voice.

⁵ »‘»You are to pay attention to the words of my servants, the prophets, whom I kept sending to you. You have never obeyed what they said.

¹⁴ »Jonadab, Rechab's son, ordered his descendants not to drink wine. This order has been carried out. His descendants have not drunk any wine to this day, because they have obeyed their ancestor's order. I have spoken to you again and again, but you have refused to listen to me. ¹⁵ »I have sent all my servants the prophets to you again and again. They said: Turn from your evil ways, do what is right, and do not follow other gods in order to serve them. Then you will live in the land that I gave you and your ancestors. However, you refused to listen to me or obey me.

³¹ ‘»‘»I will punish him, his descendants, and his attendants for their wickedness. They refused to listen. So I will bring on them, on those who live in Jerusalem, and on the people of Judah all the disasters that I have threatened.’«’«

⁴ »‘I kept sending you my servants the prophets, who told you not to do this terrible thing that I hate. ⁵ »‘But you would not listen or pay any attention. You would not give up your evil practice of sacrificing to other gods.

¹¹ »They refused to pay heed, turned a stubborn shoulder (resisted), and stopped their ears, that they might not hear. ¹² »They made their hearts hard like flint and would not listen to the law, and the words that Jehovah of Hosts sent by his Spirit through the former prophets. Great anger came from Jehovah of Hosts!«

⁵¹ »You obstinate men who are uncircumcised in heart and ears. You always resist the Holy Spirit as your fathers did. ⁵² »Which of the prophets have your fathers not persecuted? They killed those who announced in advance the coming of the righteous one whom you have betrayed and murdered.

²⁵ Be careful, then, and do not refuse to hear him who speaks. Those who refused to hear the one who gave the divine message on earth did not escape. How much less shall we escape then, if we turn away from the one who speaks from heaven!