Bible Verses About Wicked: Warned

I spoke to you again and again, but you wouldn't listen. I called you, but you wouldn't answer. Now," says ADONAI, "because you have done all these things,

I will do to the house that bears my name, on which you rely, and to the place I gave you and your ancestors, what I did to Shiloh;

and I will drive you out of my presence, just as I drove out all your kinsmen, all the descendants of Efrayim."'

Rather, what I did order them was this: 'Pay attention to what I say. Then I will be your God, and you will be my people. In everything, live according to the way that I order you, so that things will go well for you.'

But they neither listened nor paid attention, but lived according to their own plans, in the stubbornness of their evil hearts, thus going backward and not forward.

You have done this from the day your ancestors came out of Egypt until today. Even though I sent you all my servants the prophets, sending them time after time,

Moreover, ADONAI sent you all his servants the prophets - again, on numerous occasions - but you didn't listen or pay attention.

The message was always: 'Every one of you, turn back from his evil way, from the evil of your actions. Then you will live in the land ADONAI gave you and your ancestors forever and ever.

Don't follow other gods by serving and worshipping them. "Don't provoke my anger with things your own hands have made; then I will do you no harm.

"ADONAI says: 'Stand in the courtyard of ADONAI's house and speak to the people from all the cities in Y'hudah who come to worship at ADONAI's house; say everything I order you to say to them, and don't leave out a word.

Maybe they will listen, and each of them turn from his evil way; then I will be able to relent from the disaster I intend to bring on them because of how evil their deeds are.

So tell them that this is what ADONAI says: "If you will not pay attention to me and live according to my Torah, which I have given you,

and listen to what my servants the prophets, whom I send to you, say - I have sent them frequently, but you haven't listened -

then I will make this house like Shiloh, and I will make this city an object of cursing for all the nations of the earth."'"

The cohanim, the prophets and all the people heard Yirmeyahu speaking these words in the house of ADONAI.

Then Yirmeyahu said to the officials and all the people, "ADONAI sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city all the words you have heard.

Therefore now, improve your ways and your doings; and listen to the voice of ADONAI your God; then ADONAI will relent from the disaster he has decreed against you.

thus says ADONAI-Tzva'ot: 'I will attack them with sword, famine and plague; I will make them like bad figs, so bad they are inedible.

I will pursue them with sword, famine and plague and make them an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth; and they will bring on themselves cursing, astonishment, ridicule and reproach among all the nations where I have driven them;

because they have not paid attention to my words,' says ADONAI, 'which I sent to them through my servants the prophets. I sent them frequently, but you refused to listen,' says ADONAI.

When I tell the wicked person, 'Wicked person, you will certainly die'; and you fail to speak and warn the wicked person to leave his way; then that wicked person will die guilty; and I will hold you responsible for his death.

"I, N'vukhadnetzar, was contentedly living at home, enjoying the luxury of my palace;

but as I lay on my bed, I had a dream which frightened me, followed by fantasies and visions in my head which frightened me even more.

So I ordered all the sages of Bavel to present themselves to me, so that they could tell me the interpretation of the dream.

When the magicians, exorcists, astrologers and diviners came, I told them the dream; but they couldn't interpret it for me.