◄ Jeremiah 44:5 ►
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Good News Translation
But you would not listen or pay any attention. You would not give up your evil practice of sacrificing to other gods.

New Revised Standard Version
But they did not listen or incline their ear, to turn from their wickedness and make no offerings to other gods.

Contemporary English Version
but they refused to listen and would not stop worshiping other gods.

New American Bible
they did not listen or incline their ears in order to turn from their evil, no longer offering incense to other gods.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But they heard not, nor inclined their ear to turn from their evil ways, and not to sacrifice to strange gods.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But they heard not, nor inclined their ear to turn from their evil ways, and not to sacrifice to strange gods.

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Jeremiah 7:24 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear: but walked in their own will, and in the perversity of their wicked heart: and went backward and not forward,

2 Chronicles 36:16 But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused the prophets, until the wrath of the Lord arose against his people, and there was no remedy.

Psalm 81:11-13 But my people heard not my voice: and Israel hearkened not to me. . . .

Isaiah 48:4,18 For I knew that thou art stubborn, and thy neck is as an iron sinew, and thy forehead as brass. . . .

Zechariah 7:11,12 But they would not hearken, and they turned away the shoulder to depart: and they stopped their ears, not to hear. . . .

Revelation 2:21,22 And I gave her a time that she might do penance: and she will not repent of her fornication. . . .

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Jeremiah 44:17-21 But we will certainly do every word that shall proceed out of our own mouth, to sacrifice to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings to her, as we and our fathers have done, our kings, and our princes in the cities of Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem: and we were filled with bread, and it was well with us, and we saw no evil. . . .

Jeremiah 19:13 And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Juda shall be unclean as the place of Topheth: all the houses upon whose roofs they have sacrificed to all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink offerings to strange gods.

Context
Judgment on the Jews in Egypt
…4And I sent to you all my servants the prophets, rising early, and sending, and saying: Do not commit this abominable thing, which I hate. 5But they heard not, nor inclined their ear to turn from their evil ways, and not to sacrifice to strange gods.6Wherefore my indignation and my fury was poured forth, and was kindled in the cities of Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem: and they are turned to desolation and waste, as at this day.…
Cross References
Jeremiah 11:8
And they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear: but walked every one in the perverseness of his own wicked heart: and I brought upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, but they did them not.

Jeremiah 11:10
They are returned to the former iniquities of their fathers, who refused to hear my words: so these likewise have gone after strange gods, to serve them: the house of Israel, and the house of Juda have made void my covenant, which I made with their fathers.

Jeremiah 13:10
This wicked people, that will not hear my words, and that walk in the perverseness of their heart, and have gone after strange gods to serve them, and to adore them: and they shall be as this girdle ,which is fit for no use.

Jeremiah 43:4
So Johanan the son of Caree, and all the captains of the soldiers, and all the people, obeyed not the voice of the Lord, to remain in the land of Juda.

Daniel 9:6
We have not hearkened to thy servants, the prophets, that have spoken in thy name to our kings, to our princes, to our fathers, and to all the people of the land.

Jeremiah 44:4
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