Jeremiah 7:26
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Yet they would not listen to Me or incline their ear, but they stiffened their necks and did more evil than their fathers.
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And you have done more evil than your fathers. See how each of you follows the stubbornness of his evil heart instead of obeying Me.
Now do not stiffen your necks as your fathers did. Submit to the LORD and come to His sanctuary, which He has consecrated forever. Serve the LORD your God, so that His fierce anger will turn away from you.
Fill up, then, the measure of the sin of your fathers.
Yet they would not listen or incline their ear, but they stiffened their necks and would not listen or receive My discipline.
“This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I am about to bring on this city and on all the villages around it every disaster I have pronounced against them, because they have stiffened their necks so as not to heed My words.’”
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.
You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did.
I appointed watchmen over you and said, ‘Listen for the sound of the ram’s horn.’ But they answered, ‘We will not listen!’
We have not listened to Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your name to our kings, leaders, and fathers, and to all the people of the land.
But they would not listen, and they stiffened their necks like their fathers, who did not believe the LORD their God.