Jeremiah 25:4
New International Version
And though the LORD has sent all his servants the prophets to you again and again, you have not listened or paid any attention.

New Living Translation
“Again and again the LORD has sent you his servants, the prophets, but you have not listened or even paid attention.

English Standard Version
You have neither listened nor inclined your ears to hear, although the LORD persistently sent to you all his servants the prophets,

Berean Standard Bible
And the LORD has sent all His servants the prophets to you again and again, but you have not listened or inclined your ear to hear.

King James Bible
And the LORD hath sent unto you all his servants the prophets, rising early and sending them; but ye have not hearkened, nor inclined your ear to hear.

New King James Version
And the LORD has sent to you all His servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, but you have not listened nor inclined your ear to hear.

New American Standard Bible
And the LORD has sent to you all His servants the prophets again and again, but you have not listened nor inclined your ear to hear,

NASB 1995
“And the LORD has sent to you all His servants the prophets again and again, but you have not listened nor inclined your ear to hear,

NASB 1977
“And the LORD has sent to you all His servants the prophets again and again, but you have not listened nor inclined your ear to hear,

Legacy Standard Bible
And Yahweh has sent to you all His slaves the prophets, rising up early and sending, but you have not listened nor inclined your ear to hear,

Amplified Bible
Although the LORD has persistently sent to you all His servants the prophets, you have not listened nor [even] inclined your ear to hear [His message],

Christian Standard Bible
The LORD sent all his servants the prophets to you time and time again, but you have not obeyed or even paid attention.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The LORD sent all His servants the prophets to you time and time again, but you have not obeyed or even paid attention.

American Standard Version
And Jehovah hath sent unto you all his servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, (but ye have not hearkened, nor inclined your ear to hear),

Contemporary English Version
The LORD has sent prophets to you time after time, but you refused to listen.

English Revised Version
And the LORD hath sent unto you all his servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them; but ye have not hearkened, nor inclined your ear to hear;

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"Even though the LORD has sent all his servants the prophets to you, you haven't listened or paid attention to them.

Good News Translation
You would not listen or pay attention, even though the LORD has continued to send you his servants the prophets.

International Standard Version
Again and again, the LORD sent all his servants, the prophets, to you, but you wouldn't listen or even turn your ears in my direction to hear.

Majority Standard Bible
And the LORD has sent all His servants the prophets to you again and again, but you have not listened or inclined your ear to hear.

NET Bible
Over and over again the LORD has sent his servants the prophets to you. But you have not listened or paid attention.

New Heart English Bible
The LORD has sent to you all his servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them (but you have not listened, nor inclined your ear to hear)

Webster's Bible Translation
And the LORD hath sent to you all his servants the prophets, rising early and sending them; but ye have not hearkened, nor inclined your ear to hear.

World English Bible
Yahweh has sent to you all his servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them (but you have not listened or inclined your ear to hear),
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
and YHWH has sent all His servants to you, the prophets, rising early and sending, and you have not listened, nor inclined your ear to hear, saying,

Young's Literal Translation
And Jehovah hath sent unto you all His servants, the prophets, rising early and sending, and ye have not hearkened, nor inclined your ear to hear, saying:

Smith's Literal Translation
And Jehovah sent to you all his servants the prophets, rising early and sending; and ye heard not, and ye inclined not your ear to hear.
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Catholic Public Domain Version
And the Lord has sent to you all his servants, the prophets, rising at first light, and sending, and yet you have not listened, and you have not inclined your ears, so that you would hear,

New American Bible
The LORD kept sending you all his servants the prophets, but you refused to listen or pay attention

New Revised Standard Version
And though the LORD persistently sent you all his servants the prophets, you have neither listened nor inclined your ears to hear
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa Bible
And the LORD has sent to you all his servants the prophets, sending them in advance to warn you; but you did not listen, nor incline your ear to hear.

Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And LORD JEHOVAH sent to you all his Servants the Prophets. He arose early and he sent and you did not listen, and you did not incline your ears to hear
OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
And the LORD hath sent unto you all His servants the prophets, sending them betimes and often--but ye have not hearkened, nor inclined your ear to hear--

Brenton Septuagint Translation
and I sent to you my servants the prophets, sending them early; (but ye hearkened not, and listened not with your ears;) saying,

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
The Seventy-Year Captivity
3“From the thirteenth year of Josiah son of Amon king of Judah until this very day—twenty-three years—the word of the LORD has come to me, and I have spoken to you again and again, but you have not listened. 4And the LORD has sent all His servants the prophets to you again and again, but you have not listened or inclined your ear to hear. 5The prophets told you, ‘Turn now, each of you, from your evil ways and deeds, and you can dwell in the land that the LORD has given to you and your fathers forever and ever.…

Cross References
2 Chronicles 36:15-16
Again and again the LORD, the God of their fathers, sent word to His people through His messengers because He had compassion on them and on His dwelling place. / But they mocked the messengers of God, despising His words and scoffing at His prophets, until the wrath of the LORD against His people was stirred up beyond remedy.

Jeremiah 7:25-26
From the day your fathers came out of the land of Egypt until this day, I have sent you all My servants the prophets again and again. / Yet they would not listen to Me or incline their ear, but they stiffened their necks and did more evil than their fathers.

Jeremiah 11:7-8
For from the time I brought your fathers out of the land of Egypt until today, I strongly warned them again and again, saying, ‘Obey My voice.’ / Yet they would not obey or incline their ears, but each one followed the stubbornness of his evil heart. So I brought on them all the curses of this covenant I had commanded them to follow but they did not keep.”

Jeremiah 35:15
Again and again I have sent you all My servants the prophets, proclaiming: ‘Turn now, each of you, from your wicked ways, and correct your actions. Do not go after other gods to serve them. Live in the land that I have given to you and your fathers.’ But you have not inclined your ear or listened to Me.

Nehemiah 9:26-30
But they were disobedient and rebelled against You; they flung Your law behind their backs. They killed Your prophets, who had admonished them to return to You. They committed terrible blasphemies. / So You delivered them into the hands of enemies who oppressed them, and in their time of distress they cried out to You. From heaven You heard them, and in Your great compassion You gave them deliverers who saved them from the hands of their enemies. / But as soon as they had rest, they again did evil in Your sight. So You abandoned them to the hands of their enemies, who had dominion over them. When they cried out to You again, You heard from heaven, and You delivered them many times in Your compassion. ...

Zechariah 1:4-6
Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Turn now from your evil ways and deeds.’ But they did not listen or pay attention to Me, declares the LORD. / Where are your fathers now? And the prophets, do they live forever? / But did not My words and My statutes, which I commanded My servants the prophets, overtake your fathers? They repented and said, ‘Just as the LORD of Hosts purposed to do to us according to our ways and deeds, so He has done to us.’”

Matthew 23:34-37
Because of this, I am sending you prophets and wise men and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and others you will flog in your synagogues and persecute from town to town. / And so upon you will come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar. / Truly I tell you, all these things will come upon this generation. ...

Luke 11:47-51
Woe to you! For you build tombs for the prophets, but it was your fathers who killed them. / So you are witnesses consenting to the deeds of your fathers: They killed the prophets, and you build their tombs. / Because of this, the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send them prophets and apostles; some of them they will kill and others they will persecute.’ ...

Acts 7:51-52
You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did. / Which of the prophets did your fathers fail to persecute? They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One. And now you are His betrayers and murderers—

2 Kings 17:13-14
Yet through all His prophets and seers, the LORD warned Israel and Judah, saying, “Turn from your wicked ways and keep My commandments and statutes, according to the entire Law that I commanded your fathers and delivered to you through My servants the prophets.” / But they would not listen, and they stiffened their necks like their fathers, who did not believe the LORD their God.

Isaiah 30:9-10
These are rebellious people, deceitful children, children unwilling to obey the LORD’s instruction. / They say to the seers, “Stop seeing visions!” and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us the truth! Speak to us pleasant words; prophesy illusions.

Ezekiel 2:3-5
“Son of man,” He said to me, “I am sending you to the Israelites, to a rebellious nation that has rebelled against Me. To this very day they and their fathers have rebelled against Me. / They are obstinate and stubborn children. I am sending you to them, and you are to say to them, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says.’ / And whether they listen or refuse to listen—for they are a rebellious house—they will know that a prophet has been among them.

Hosea 12:10
I spoke through the prophets and multiplied their visions; I gave parables through the prophets.

Amos 3:7
Surely the Lord GOD does nothing without revealing His plan to His servants the prophets.

2 Chronicles 24:19
Nevertheless, the LORD sent prophets to bring the people back to Him and to testify against them, but they would not listen.


Treasury of Scripture

And the LORD has sent to you all his servants the prophets, rising early and sending them; but you have not listened, nor inclined your ear to hear.

all.

rising.

Jeremiah 7:25
Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day I have even sent unto you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them:

Jeremiah 11:7
For I earnestly protested unto your fathers in the day that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even unto this day, rising early and protesting, saying, Obey my voice.

Jeremiah 26:5
To hearken to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I sent unto you, both rising up early, and sending them, but ye have not hearkened;

ye.

Jeremiah 25:3,7
From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, even unto this day, that is the three and twentieth year, the word of the LORD hath come unto me, and I have spoken unto you, rising early and speaking; but ye have not hearkened…

Jeremiah 7:24-26
But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward…

Jeremiah 11:8-10
Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked every one in the imagination of their evil heart: therefore I will bring upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do; but they did them not…

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Jeremiah 25
1. Jeremiah, reproving the Jews' disobedience to the prophets,
8. foretells the seventy years' captivity;
12. and after that, the destruction of Babylon.
15. Under the type of a cup of wine he foreshows the destruction of all nations.
34. The howling of the shepherds.














And the LORD has sent
The phrase emphasizes the divine initiative and authority behind the sending of the prophets. The Hebrew root for "sent" is שָׁלַח (shalach), which conveys the idea of dispatching or commissioning with a purpose. This underscores God's active role in reaching out to His people, demonstrating His persistent love and desire for their repentance. Historically, this reflects God's covenant relationship with Israel, where He continually sought to guide and correct them through His chosen messengers.

all His servants the prophets
The term "servants" (עֲבָדִים, avadim) highlights the prophets' role as devoted and obedient messengers of God. The prophets were not acting on their own accord but were fulfilling a divine mandate. This phrase also indicates the comprehensive nature of God's communication; He sent "all" His prophets, showing that His warnings and messages were consistent and abundant. The historical context reveals a long line of prophets, from Moses to Jeremiah, who were sent to call Israel back to faithfulness.

to you again and again
This repetition underscores God's relentless pursuit of His people. The Hebrew phrase used here, שָׁכַם וְשָׁלַח (shakam v'shalach), literally means "rising early and sending," which is a metaphor for diligence and persistence. It paints a picture of God's eagerness and urgency in delivering His message, reflecting His patience and long-suffering nature. This persistence is a testament to God's grace, as He continually offers opportunities for repentance despite repeated rejections.

but you have not listened
The phrase "not listened" (לֹא שְׁמַעְתֶּם, lo sh'matem) indicates a willful disobedience and rejection of God's message. Listening, in the Hebrew context, implies not just hearing but also obeying. The people's refusal to listen signifies a hardened heart and a deliberate choice to ignore God's warnings. This highlights the spiritual stubbornness that characterized Israel's history, leading to their eventual judgment.

or inclined your ear to hear
The imagery of "inclining the ear" (הִטּוֹתֶם אֶת־אָזְנְכֶם, hitotem et-oznechem) suggests an active effort to pay attention and understand. It implies a posture of humility and readiness to receive instruction. The failure to incline the ear indicates a lack of willingness to be corrected or guided by God. This phrase serves as a poignant reminder of the importance of being receptive to God's voice, a theme echoed throughout Scripture as essential for spiritual growth and obedience.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
And the LORD
יְהוָ֨ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

has sent
וְשָׁלַח֩ (wə·šā·laḥ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 7971: To send away, for, out

all
כָּל־ (kāl-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

His servants
עֲבָדָ֧יו (‘ă·ḇā·ḏāw)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 5650: Slave, servant

the prophets
הַנְּבִאִ֛ים (han·nə·ḇi·’îm)
Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 5030: A spokesman, speaker, prophet

to
אֲלֵיכֶ֜ם (’ă·lê·ḵem)
Preposition | second person masculine plural
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to

you
אֶֽת־ (’eṯ-)
Direct object marker
Strong's 853: Untranslatable mark of the accusative case

again
הַשְׁכֵּ֥ם (haš·kêm)
Verb - Hifil - Infinitive absolute
Strong's 7925: To load up, to start early in the morning

and again,
וְשָׁלֹ֖חַ (wə·šā·lō·aḥ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Infinitive absolute
Strong's 7971: To send away, for, out

but you have not
וְלֹ֣א (wə·lō)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

listened
שְׁמַעְתֶּ֑ם (šə·ma‘·tem)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's 8085: To hear intelligently

[or]
וְלֹֽא־ (wə·lō-)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

inclined
הִטִּיתֶ֥ם (hiṭ·ṭî·ṯem)
Verb - Hifil - Perfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's 5186: To stretch out, spread out, extend, incline, bend

your ear
אָזְנְכֶ֖ם (’ā·zə·nə·ḵem)
Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine plural
Strong's 241: Broadness, the ear

to hear.
לִשְׁמֹֽעַ׃ (liš·mō·a‘)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 8085: To hear intelligently


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