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Jeremiah 7:27 KJV
Jeremiah · chapter 7 · verse 27
Therefore thou shalt speak all these words unto them; but they will not hearken to thee: thou shalt also call unto them; but they will not answer thee.Jeremiah 7:27 · King James Version
Jeremiah 7:27 in context
25Since 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:
26Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.
27Therefore thou shalt speak all these words unto them; but they will not hearken to thee: thou shalt also call unto them; but they will not answer thee.
28But thou shalt say unto them, This is a nation that obeyeth not the voice of the LORD their God, nor receiveth correction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.
29Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- hearkenshâmaʻto hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etcH8085 →
- speakdâbarperhaps properly, to arrangeH1696 →
- wordsdâbâra wordH1697 →
- callqârâʼto call out toH7121 →
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God, having shown the people that the temple would not protect them while they polluted it with their wickedness, here shows them that their sacrifices would not atone for them, nor be accepted, while they went on in disobedience. See with what contempt he here speaks of their ceremonial service (Jer 7:21).
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 21-28