Jeremiah 5:3

Webster's Bible (1833)

O Yahweh, don't your eyes look on truth? you have stricken them, but they were not grieved; you have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.

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  • 2 Chr 16:9 : 9 For the eyes of Yahweh run back and forth throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. Herein you have done foolishly; for from henceforth you shall have wars.
  • Jer 2:30 : 30 In vain have I struck your children; they received no correction: your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
  • Isa 9:13 : 13 Yet the people have not turned to him who struck them, neither have they sought Yahweh of Hosts.
  • Jer 7:28 : 28 You shall tell them, This is the nation that has not listened to the voice of Yahweh their God, nor received instruction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.
  • Zeph 3:1-2 : 1 Woe to her who is rebellious and polluted, the oppressing city! 2 She didn't obey the voice. She didn't receive correction. She didn't trust in Yahweh. She didn't draw near to her God.
  • Zeph 3:7 : 7 I said, "Just fear me. Receive correction, so that her dwelling won't be cut off, according to all that I have appointed concerning her." But they rose early and corrupted all their doings.
  • Zech 7:11-12 : 11 But they refused to listen, and turned their backs, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear. 12 Yes, they made their hearts as hard as flint, lest they might hear the law, and the words which Yahweh of Hosts had sent by his Spirit by the former prophets. Therefore great wrath came from Yahweh of Hosts.
  • Ps 11:4-7 : 4 Yahweh is in his holy temple. Yahweh is on his throne in heaven. His eyes observe. His eyes examine the children of men. 5 Yahweh examines the righteous, But the wicked and him who loves violence his soul hates. 6 On the wicked he will rain blazing coals; Fire, sulfur, and scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup. 7 For Yahweh is righteous. He loves righteousness. The upright shall see his face.
  • Ps 51:6 : 6 Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts. You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.
  • Prov 21:29 : 29 A wicked man hardens his face; But as for the upright, he establishes his ways.
  • Prov 22:12 : 12 The eyes of Yahweh watch over knowledge; But he frustrates the words of the unfaithful.
  • Prov 23:35 : 35 "They hit me, and I was not hurt; They beat me, and I don't feel it! When will I wake up? I can do it again. I can find another."
  • Prov 27:22 : 22 Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with grain, Yet his foolishness will not be removed from him.
  • Isa 1:5-6 : 5 Why should you be beaten more, That you revolt more and more? The whole head is sick, And the whole heart faint. 6 From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it: Wounds, welts, and open sores. They haven't been closed, neither bandaged, neither soothed with oil.
  • Isa 42:25 : 25 Therefore he poured on him the fierceness of his anger, and the strength of battle; and it set him on fire round about, yet he didn't know; and it burned him, yet he didn't lay it to heart.
  • Isa 48:4 : 4 Because I knew that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your brow brass;
  • 2 Chr 28:22 : 22 In the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against Yahweh, this same king Ahaz.
  • Rom 2:2 : 2 We know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who practice such things.
  • Rom 2:4-5 : 4 Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance? 5 But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God;
  • Heb 12:9 : 9 Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?
  • Jer 19:15 : 15 Thus says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will bring on this city and on all its towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it; because they have made their neck stiff, that they may not hear my words.
  • Jer 32:19 : 19 great in counsel, and mighty in work; whose eyes are open on all the ways of the sons of men, to give everyone according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:
  • Ezek 3:7-9 : 7 But the house of Israel will not listen to you; for they will not listen to me: for all the house of Israel are of hard forehead and of a stiff heart. 8 Behold, I have made your face hard against their faces, and your forehead hard against their foreheads. 9 As an adamant harder than flint have I made your forehead: don't be afraid of them, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house.
  • Ezek 24:13 : 13 In your filthiness is lewdness: because I have cleansed you and you weren't cleansed, you shall not be cleansed from your filthiness any more, until I have caused my wrath toward you to rest.
  • Jer 7:26 : 26 yet they didn't listen to me, nor inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff: they did worse than their fathers.

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  • 4Then I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish; for they don't know the way of Yahweh, nor the law of their God:

  • Jer 8:4-5
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    4Moreover you shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh: Shall men fall, and not rise up again? Shall one turn away, and not return?

    5Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.

  • 28You shall tell them, This is the nation that has not listened to the voice of Yahweh their God, nor received instruction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.

  • 14Notwithstanding, they would not hear, but hardened their neck, like the neck of their fathers, who didn't believe in Yahweh their God.

  • 27Because they turned aside from following him, And wouldn't have regard in any of his ways:

  • 13Yet the people have not turned to him who struck them, neither have they sought Yahweh of Hosts.

  • Hab 1:12-13
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    12Aren't you from everlasting, Yahweh my God, my Holy One? We will not die. Yahweh, you have appointed him for judgment. You, Rock, have established him to punish.

    13You who have purer eyes than to see evil, and who cannot look on perversity, why do you tolerate those who deal treacherously, and keep silent when the wicked swallows up the man who is more righteous than he,

  • Zech 7:11-12
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    11But they refused to listen, and turned their backs, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear.

    12Yes, they made their hearts as hard as flint, lest they might hear the law, and the words which Yahweh of Hosts had sent by his Spirit by the former prophets. Therefore great wrath came from Yahweh of Hosts.

  • 2Though they say, As Yahweh lives; surely they swear falsely.

  • 29and testified against them, that you might bring them again to your law. Yet they dealt proudly, and didn't listen to your commandments, but sinned against your ordinances, (which if a man do, he shall live in them), and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear.

  • Ezek 3:7-9
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    7But the house of Israel will not listen to you; for they will not listen to me: for all the house of Israel are of hard forehead and of a stiff heart.

    8Behold, I have made your face hard against their faces, and your forehead hard against their foreheads.

    9As an adamant harder than flint have I made your forehead: don't be afraid of them, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house.

  • 33They have turned to me the back, and not the face: and though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not listened to receive instruction.

  • 6those who have turned back from following Yahweh, and those who haven't sought Yahweh nor inquired after him.

  • 4Then they will cry to Yahweh, But he will not answer them. Yes, he will hide his face from them at that time, Because they made their deeds evil."

  • 10The pride of Israel testifies to his face; Yet they haven't returned to Yahweh their God, Nor sought him, for all this.

  • 5Why should you be beaten more, That you revolt more and more? The whole head is sick, And the whole heart faint.

  • Jer 2:29-31
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    29Why will you contend with me? you all have transgressed against me, says Yahweh.

    30In vain have I struck your children; they received no correction: your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

    31Generation, see the word of Yahweh. Have I been a wilderness to Israel? or a land of thick darkness? why say my people, We are broken loose; we will come no more to you?

  • 21Hear now this, foolish people, and without understanding; who have eyes, and don't see; who have ears, and don't hear:

  • 17O Yahweh, why do you make us to err from your ways, and harden our heart from your fear? Return for your servants' sake, the tribes of your inheritance.

  • 18They don't know, neither do they consider: for he has shut their eyes, that they can't see; and their hearts, that they can't understand.

  • 37He will say, Where are their gods, The rock in which they took refuge;

  • 2They don't consider in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness. Now their own deeds have engulfed them. They are before my face.

  • 16But they and our fathers dealt proudly and hardened their neck, and didn't listen to your commandments,

  • 10They 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 Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers.

  • 4Their deeds won't allow them to turn to their God; For the spirit of prostitution is within them, And they don't know Yahweh.

  • 9The look of their faces testify against them. They parade their sin like Sodom. They don't hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have brought disaster upon themselves.

  • 23But they didn't listen, neither turn their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, and might not receive instruction.

  • 17You have wearied Yahweh with your words. Yet you say, 'How have we wearied him?' In that you say, 'Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of Yahweh, and he delights in them;' or 'Where is the God of justice?'

  • 13Yahweh says, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein,

  • 35For they have not served you in their kingdom, and in your great goodness that you gave them, and in the large and fat land which you gave before them, neither turned they from their wicked works.

  • 6Your habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, says Yahweh.

  • 3They bend their tongue, [as it were] their bow, for falsehood; and they are grown strong in the land, but not for truth: for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don't know me, says Yahweh.

  • 5Because they don't regard the works of Yahweh, Nor the operation of his hands, He will break them down and not build them up.

  • 26yet they didn't listen to me, nor inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff: they did worse than their fathers.

  • 24Yahweh, correct me, but in measure: not in your anger, lest you bring me to nothing.

  • 22But you have utterly rejected us; You are very angry against us.

  • 19Your own wickedness shall correct you, and your backsliding shall reprove you: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and a bitter, that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, and that my fear is not in you, says the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts.

  • 9For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children who will not hear the law of Yahweh;

  • 10Thus says Yahweh to this people, Even so have they loved to wander; they have not refrained their feet: therefore Yahweh does not accept them; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins.

  • 7I said, "Just fear me. Receive correction, so that her dwelling won't be cut off, according to all that I have appointed concerning her." But they rose early and corrupted all their doings.

  • 12They have denied Yahweh, and said, It is not he; neither shall evil come on us; neither shall we see sword nor famine:

  • 7Yet you have not listened to me, says Yahweh; that you may provoke me to anger with the work of your hands to your own hurt.

  • 1He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck Will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.