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Jeremiah 7:24

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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.

But they hearkened {H8085} not, nor inclined {H5186} their ear {H241}, but walked {H3212} in the counsels {H4156} and in the imagination {H8307} of their evil {H7451} heart {H3820}, and went backward {H268}, and not forward {H6440}.

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.

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 they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.

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Cross-References

  • Psalms 81:11 (7 votes)

    But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me.

  • Psalms 81:12 (7 votes)

    So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: [and] they walked in their own counsels.

  • Jeremiah 8:5 (5 votes)

    Why [then] is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.

  • Jeremiah 7:26 (5 votes)

    Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.

  • Deuteronomy 29:19 (5 votes)

    And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:

  • Jeremiah 32:33 (4 votes)

    And they have turned unto me the back, and not the face: though I taught them, rising up early and teaching [them], yet they have not hearkened to receive instruction.

  • Ezekiel 20:13 (4 votes)

    But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which [if] a man do, he shall even live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly polluted: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.