Jeremiah 7:28

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And you are to say to them, This is the nation which has not given ear to the voice of their God, or taken his teaching to heart: good faith is dead and is cut off from their mouths.

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  • Isa 59:14-15 : 14 And the right is turned back, and righteousness is far away: for good faith is not to be seen in the public places, and upright behaviour may not come into the town. 15 Yes, faith is gone; and he whose heart is turned from evil comes into the power of the cruel: and the Lord saw it, and he was angry that there was no one to take up their cause.
  • Jer 2:30 : 30 I gave your children blows to no purpose; they got no good from training: your sword has been the destruction of your prophets, like a death-giving lion.
  • Jer 5:1 : 1 Go quickly through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and get knowledge, and make a search in her wide places if there is a man, if there is one in her who is upright, who keeps faith; and she will have my forgiveness.
  • Jer 5:3 : 3 O Lord, do not your eyes see good faith? you have given them punishment, but they were not troubled; you have sent destruction on them, but they did not take your teaching to heart: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they would not come back.
  • Jer 6:8 : 8 Undergo teaching, O Jerusalem, or my soul will be turned away from you, and I will make you a waste, an unpeopled land.
  • Jer 6:29-30 : 29 The blower is blowing strongly, the lead is burned away in the fire: they go on heating the metal to no purpose, for the evil-doers are not taken away. 30 They will be named waste silver, because the Lord has given them up.
  • Jer 9:3-8 : 3 Their tongues are bent like a bow to send out false words: they have become strong in the land, but not for good faith: they go on from evil to evil, and they have no knowledge of me, says the Lord. 4 Let everyone keep watch on his neighbour, and put no faith in any brother: for every brother will certainly be tricking his brother, and every neighbour will go about saying evil. 5 Everyone will make sport of his neighbour with deceit, not saying what is true: their tongues have been trained to say false words; they are twisted, hating to come back. 6 There is wrong on wrong, deceit on deceit; they have given up the knowledge of me, says the Lord. 7 So the Lord of armies has said, See, I will make them soft in the fire and put them to the test; this I will do because of their evil-doing. 8 His tongue is an arrow causing death; the words of his mouth are deceit: he says words of peace to his neighbour, but in his heart he is waiting secretly for him.
  • Jer 32:33 : 33 And they have been turning their backs and not their faces to me: and though I was their teacher, getting up early and teaching them, their ears were not open to teaching.
  • Hos 4:1 : 1 Give ear to the word of the Lord, O children of Israel; for the Lord has a cause against the people of this land, because there is no good faith in it, and no mercy and no knowledge of God in the land.
  • Mic 7:2-5 : 2 The good man is gone from the earth, there is no one upright among men: they are all waiting secretly for blood, every man is going after his brother with a net. 3 Their hands are made ready to do evil; the ruler makes requests for money, and the judge is looking for a reward; and the great man gives decisions at his pleasure, and the right is twisted. 4 The best of them is like a waste plant, and their upright ones are like a wall of thorns. Sorrow! the day of their fate has come; now will trouble come on them. 5 Put no faith in a friend, do not let your hope be placed in a relation: keep watch on the doors of your mouth against her who is resting on your breast.
  • Zeph 3:2 : 2 She gave no attention to the voice, she had no use for teaching, she put no faith in the Lord, she did not come near to her God.
  • Prov 1:7 : 7 The fear of the Lord is the start of knowledge: but the foolish have no use for wisdom and teaching.
  • Isa 1:4-5 : 4 O nation full of sin, a people weighted down with crime, a generation of evil-doers, false-hearted children: they have gone away from the Lord, they have no respect for the Holy One of Israel, their hearts are turned back from him. 5 Why will you have more and more punishment? why keep on in your evil ways? Every head is tired and every heart is feeble.
  • Ps 50:17 : 17 Seeing that you have no desire for my teaching, turning your back on my words.
  • Zeph 3:7 : 7 I said, Certainly you will go in fear of me, and come under my training, so that whatever I may send on her may not be cut off before her eyes: but they got up early and made all their works evil.

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  • Jer 7:26-27
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    26 But still they took no note and would not give ear, but they made their necks stiff, doing worse than their fathers.

    27 And you are to say all these words to them, but they will not give ear to you: you will send out your voice to them, but they will give no answer.

  • Jer 7:29
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    29 Let your hair be cut off, O Jerusalem, and let it go, and let a song of grief go up on the open hilltops; for the Lord is turned away from the generation of his wrath and has given them up.

  • Isa 30:9-10
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    9 For they are an uncontrolled people, false-hearted, who will not give ear to the teaching of the Lord:

    10 Who say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Do not give us word of what is true, but say false things to give us pleasure:

  • Jer 5:3
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    3 O Lord, do not your eyes see good faith? you have given them punishment, but they were not troubled; you have sent destruction on them, but they did not take your teaching to heart: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they would not come back.

  • Jer 6:10
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    10 To whom am I to give word, witnessing so that they may take note? see, their ears are stopped, and they are not able to give attention: see, the word of the Lord has been a cause of shame to them, they have no delight in it.

  • Hos 4:1
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    1 Give ear to the word of the Lord, O children of Israel; for the Lord has a cause against the people of this land, because there is no good faith in it, and no mercy and no knowledge of God in the land.

  • Deut 8:20
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    20 Like the nations which the Lord is cutting off before you, so you will be cut off; because you would not give ear to the voice of the Lord your God.

  • Jer 9:13
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    13 And the Lord said, Because they have given up my law which I put before them, giving no attention to my voice and not being guided by it;

  • Jer 28:7
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    7 But still, give ear to this word which I am saying to you and to all the people:

  • Jer 14:10
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    10 This is what the Lord has said about this people: Even so they have been glad to go from the right way; they have not kept their feet from wandering, so the Lord has no pleasure in them; now he will keep their wrongdoing in mind and send punishment for their sins.

  • Jer 7:8
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    8 See, you put your faith in false words which are of no profit.

  • Amos 7:16
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    16 Now then, give ear to the word of the Lord: You say, Be no prophet to Israel, and say not a word against the people of Isaac.

  • Hos 7:13
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    13 May trouble be theirs! for they have gone far away from me; and destruction, for they have been sinning against me; I was ready to be their saviour, but they said false words against me.

  • Isa 29:13
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    13 And the Lord said, because this people come near to me with their mouths, and give honour to me with their lips, but their heart is far from me, and their fear of me is false, a rule given them by the teaching of men;

  • Jer 9:3
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    3 Their tongues are bent like a bow to send out false words: they have become strong in the land, but not for good faith: they go on from evil to evil, and they have no knowledge of me, says the Lord.

  • Jer 22:21
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    21 My word came to you in the time of your well-being; but you said, I will not give ear. This has been your way from your earliest years, you did not give attention to my voice.

  • Jer 8:4-5
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    4 Further, you are to say to them, This is what the Lord has said: Will those who are falling not be lifted up again? will he who has gone away not come back?

    5 Why do these people of Jerusalem go back, for ever turning away? they will not give up their deceit, they will not come back.

  • Jer 17:23
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    23 But they gave no attention and would not give ear, but they made their necks stiff so that they might not give ear and might not get teaching.

  • Jer 16:10-11
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    10 And it will be, that when you say all these words to the people, then they will say to you, Why has the Lord done all this evil against us? what is our wrongdoing and what is our sin which we have done against the Lord our God?

    11 Then you will say to them, Because your fathers have given me up, says the Lord, and have gone after other gods and become their servants and their worshippers, and have given me up and have not kept my law;

  • Jer 11:8
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    8 But they gave no attention and did not give ear, but they went on, every man in the pride of his evil heart: so I sent on them all the curses in this agreement, which I gave them orders to keep, but they did not.

  • Isa 28:14
    72%

    14 Give ear then to the word of the Lord, you men of pride, the rulers of this people in Jerusalem:

  • Jer 9:6
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    6 There is wrong on wrong, deceit on deceit; they have given up the knowledge of me, says the Lord.

  • Ezek 13:7
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    7 Have you not seen a vision without substance and have you not falsely made use of secret arts, when you say, The Lord has said; though I have said nothing?

  • Acts 28:26
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    26 Go to this people and say, Though you give ear, you will not get knowledge; and seeing, you will see, but the sense will not be clear to you:

  • Jer 25:8
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    8 So this is what the Lord of armies has said: Because you have not given ear to my words,

  • Jer 42:21
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    21 And this day I have made it clear to you, and you have not given ear to the voice of the Lord your God in anything for which he has sent me to you.

  • Jer 2:30-31
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    30 I gave your children blows to no purpose; they got no good from training: your sword has been the destruction of your prophets, like a death-giving lion.

    31 O generation, see the word of the Lord. Have I been a waste land to Israel? or a land of dark night? why do my people say, We have got loose, we will not come to you again?

  • Jer 35:13
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    13 This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: Go and say to the men of Judah and the people of Jerusalem, Is there no hope of teaching you to give ear to my words? says the Lord.

  • Isa 1:4
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    4 O nation full of sin, a people weighted down with crime, a generation of evil-doers, false-hearted children: they have gone away from the Lord, they have no respect for the Holy One of Israel, their hearts are turned back from him.

  • Deut 32:28
    71%

    28 For they are a nation without wisdom; there is no sense in them.

  • Jer 5:20
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    20 Say this openly in Jacob and give it out in Judah, saying,

  • Jer 11:3
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    3 The Lord, the God of Israel, has said, Let that man be cursed who does not give ear to the words of this agreement,

  • Jer 7:13
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    13 And now, because you have done all these works, says the Lord, and I sent my word to you, getting up early and sending, but you did not give ear; and my voice came to you, but you gave no answer:

  • Jer 11:10
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    10 They are turned back to the sins of their fathers, who would not give ear to my words; they have gone after other gods and become their servants: the people of Israel and the people of Judah have not kept the agreement which I made with their fathers.

  • Jer 28:15
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    15 Then the prophet Jeremiah said to Hananiah the prophet, Give ear, now, Hananiah; the Lord has not sent you; but you are making this people put their faith in what is false.

  • Jer 26:4
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    4 And you are to say to them, This is what the Lord has said: If you do not give ear to me and go in the way of my law which I have put before you,

  • Jer 2:8
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    8 The priests did not say, Where is the Lord? and those who were expert in the law had no knowledge of me: and the rulers did evil against me, and the prophets became prophets of the Baal, going after things without value.

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    6 Let not words like these be dropped, they say: Shame and the curse will not come to the family of Jacob!

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    14 And the right is turned back, and righteousness is far away: for good faith is not to be seen in the public places, and upright behaviour may not come into the town.

  • Hos 4:6
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    6 Destruction has overtaken my people because they have no knowledge; because you have given up knowledge, I will give you up, so that you will be no priest to me, because you have not kept in mind the law of your God, I will not keep your children in my memory.

  • Jer 12:17
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    17 But if they will not give ear, then I will have that nation uprooted, and given to destruction, says the Lord.

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    1 Give ear to this, O family of Jacob, you who are named by the name of Israel, and have come out of the body of Judah; who take oaths by the name of the Lord, and make use of the name of the God of Israel, but not truly and not in good faith.

  • Isa 6:9
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    9 And he said, Go, and say to this people, You will go on hearing, but learning nothing; you will go on seeing, but without getting wiser.

  • Jer 35:17
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    17 For this reason the Lord, the God of armies, the God of Israel, has said, See, I will send on Judah and on all the people of Jerusalem all the evil which I said I would do to them: because I sent my words to them, but they did not give ear; crying out to them, but they gave no answer.

  • Jer 6:18
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    18 So then, give ear, you nations, and ...