Jeremiah 25:8

Therefore, Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts,—Because ye have not heard my words,

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Because ye have not heard my words,

In Context

7Howbeit ye hearkened not unto me, Declareth Yahweh,—that ye might provoke me to anger with the work of your hands unto your own hurt.

9Behold me! sending and fetching all the families of the North, Declareth Yahweh and Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon my servant, And I will bring them in against this land and against its inhabitants, and against all these nations, round about,—And I will devote them to destruction, and make them an astonishment and a hissing, and age-abiding desolations.

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 24:19And he sent among them prophets, to bring them back unto Yahweh,—and they testified against them, but they would not give ear.

Jeremiah 19:15Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts, God of Israel, Behold me! brining in against this city, and upon all the cities thereof, The whole calamity which I have pronounced against her,—Because they stiffened their neck, that they might not hear my words.

Jeremiah 29:19Because they hearkened not unto my words Declareth Yahweh,—which I sent unto them by my servants the prophets, betimes, sending them yet hearkened they not Declareth Yahweh.

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 25:2-8

God's Remonstrances with the People. ( b. c. 607.) 1 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, that was the first year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; 2 The which Jeremiah the prophet spake unto all the people of Judah, and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, 3 From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, even unto this day, that is the three and twentieth year, the word of the Lord hath come… Read the whole commentary →

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