Jeremiah 32:33
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They have turned their backs to Me and not their faces. Though I taught them again and again, they would not listen or respond to discipline.
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And now, because you have done all these things, declares the LORD, and because I have spoken to you again and again but you would not listen, and I have called to you but you would not answer,
So He brought me to the inner court of the house of the LORD, and there at the entrance to the temple of the LORD, between the portico and the altar, were about twenty-five men with their backs to the temple of the LORD and their faces toward the east; and they were bowing to the east in worship of the sun.
say to a tree, ‘You are my father,’ and to a stone, ‘You gave me birth.’ For they have turned their backs to Me and not their faces, yet in the time of trouble they beg, ‘Rise up and save us!’
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.
and if you do not listen to the words of My servants the prophets, whom I have sent you again and again even though you did not listen,
Early in the morning He went back into the temple courts. All the people came to Him, and He sat down to teach them.
Yet they did not listen or incline their ear, but they followed the stubborn inclinations of their own evil hearts. They went backward and not forward.
But the more I called Israel, the farther they departed from Me. They sacrificed to the Baals and burned incense to carved images.
Yet I sent you all My servants the prophets again and again, saying: ‘Do not do this detestable thing that I hate.’
I will scatter them before the enemy like the east wind. I will show them My back and not My face in the day of their calamity.”