Jeremiah 7:28
This is the nation which has not hearkened to the voice of the Lord, nor received correction: truth has failed from their mouth.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
27Therefore thou shalt speak this word to them;
Cross References
Psalms 12:2How long shall I take counsel in my soul, 1 Having sorrows in my heart daily? 1 How long shall my enemy be exalted over me? 1
Proverbs 1:7The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; 1 And there is good understanding to all that practice it: 1 And piety toward God is the beginning of discernment; 1 But the ungodly will set at nought wisdom and instruction. 1
Isaiah 30:9For the people is disobedient, false children, who would not hear the law of God:
Jeremiah 2:30In vain have I smitten your children; ye have not received correction: a sword has devoured your prophets as a destroying lion; yet ye feared not.
Jeremiah 5:3O Lord, thine eyes are upon faithfulness: thou hast scourged them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them; but they would not receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; and they would not return.
Jeremiah 6:28They are all disobedient, walking perversely: they are brass and iron; they are all corrupted.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 7:22-29
Obedience Better than Sacrifice. ( b. c. 606.) 21 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh. 22 For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices: 23 But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you. 24 But… Read the whole commentary →