New Revised Standard Version
Yet he sent prophets among them to bring them back to the LORD; they testified against them, but they would not listen.

Contemporary English Version
but he still sent prophets who warned them to turn back to him. The people refused to listen.

New American Bible
Although prophets were sent to them to turn them back to the LORD and to warn them, the people would not listen.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he sent prophets to them to bring them back to the Lord, and they would not give ear when they testified against them.

And he sent prophets to them to bring them back to the Lord, and they would not give ear when they testified against them.

Yet he sent

2 Chronicles 36:15,16 And the Lord the God of their fathers sent to them, by the hand of his messengers, rising early, and daily admonishing them: because he spared his people and his dwelling place. . . .

2 Kings 17:13-15 And the Lord testified to them in Israel, and in Juda, by the hand of all the prophets and seers, saying: Return from your wicked ways, and keep my precepts, and ceremonies, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers: and as I have sent to you in the hand of my servants the prophets. . . .

Nehemiah 9:26 But they provoked thee to wrath, and departed from thee, and threw thy law behind their backs: and they killed thy prophets, who admonished them earnestly to return to thee: and they were guilty of great blasphemies.

Jeremiah 7:25,26 From the day that their fathers came out of the land of Egypt, even to this day. And I have sent to you all my servants the prophets, from day to day, rising up early and sending. . . .

Jeremiah 25:4,5 And the Lord hath sent to you all his servants the prophets, rising early, and sending, and you have not hearkened, nor inclined your ears to hear. . . .

Jeremiah 44:4,5 And I sent to you all my servants the prophets, rising early, and sending, and saying: Do not commit this abominable thing, which I hate. . . .

Luke 11:47-51 Woe to you who build the monuments of the prophets: and your fathers killed them. . . .

Luke 16:31 And he said to him: If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they believe, if one rise again from the dead.

Luke 20:9-15 And he began to speak to the people this parable: A certain man planted a vineyard and let it out to husbandmen: and he was abroad for a long time. . . .

but they would

Psalm 95:7,8 For he is the Lord our God: and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand. . . .

Isaiah 28:23 Give ear, and hear my voice, hearken, and hear my speech.

Isaiah 42:23 Who is there among you that will give ear to this, that will attend and hearken for times to come?

Isaiah 51:4 Hearken unto me, O my people, and give ear to me, O my tribes: for a law shall go forth from me, and my judgment shall rest to be a light of the nations.

Isaiah 55:3 Incline your ear and come to me: hear and your soul shall live, and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, the faithful mercies of David.

Matthew 13:9,15,16 He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. . . .