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Jeremiah 29:19

in Jeremiah 29

I will do this because they have not listened to My words, declares the LORD, which I sent to them again and again through My servants the prophets. And neither have you exiles listened, declares the LORD.”

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

because they have not hearkened to my words, saith Jehovah, wherewith I sent unto them my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them; but ye would not hear, saith Jehovah.

KJV

Because they have not hearkened to my words, saith the Lord, which I sent unto them by my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them; but ye would not hear, saith the Lord.

This verse in Jeremiah 29

Commentary

6 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

this is what the LORD of

on Jeremiah 29:17-19

Those left in Jerusalem face “sword and famine and plague,” made “like rotten figs, so bad they cannot be eaten,” the image in chapter 24. The letter leans on that vision, where the exiles are the good figs and those left under Zedekiah the bad.

This site's exposition

again and again through My servants the prophets

The charge against Jerusalem is an old one. The last line turns to the exiles and finds the same deafness in them. Adam Clarke reads the passage as a warning to the exiles, who still hold a promise of release that Jerusalem lacks.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

A commentator

Jerome

Commentary on Jeremiah · Written before 420.

proposed

(Verse 14 and following) And I will restore your captivity, and gather you from all the nations and from all the places to which I have driven you, declares the Lord. And I will bring you back to the place from where I sent you into exile. For you have said, 'The Lord has raised up prophets for us in Babylon.' Thus says the Lord concerning the king who sits on the throne of David, and concerning all the people who live in this city, your fellow countrymen who did not go with you into exile.

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

He prophesies the destruction of two of their false prophets that they had in Babylon, that both soothed them up in their sins and set them bad examples (

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A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

): Because they have not hearkened to my words. I called, but they refused. He foretells the judgment of God upon the false prophets in Babylon, who deceived the people of God there.

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Because they have not hearkened to my words, saith the Lord,....

The words behind it

20 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • תַּ֛חַתbecause

    tachatH8478 →505 times

  • אֲשֶֽׁר־that

    ʾasher-H834 →5497 times

  • לֹא־not

    lo'-H3808 →5168 times

  • שָׁמְע֥וּthey listened

    shameuH8085 →1159 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • דְּבָרַ֖יwords my

    devaraiH1697 →1440 times

  • נְאֻם־[the] utterance of

    neum-H5002 →376 times

  • יְהוָ֑הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • אֲשֶׁר֩[those] whom

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • שָׁלַ֨חְתִּיI sent

    shalachtiH7971 →845 times

  • אֲלֵיהֶ֜םto them

    ʾaleihemH413 →5510 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • עֲבָדַ֤יservants my

    ʾavadaiH5650 →799 times

  • הַנְּבִאִים֙the prophets

    haneviimH5030 →314 times

  • הַשְׁכֵּ֣םrising early

    hashkemH7925 →65 times

  • וְשָׁלֹ֔חַand sending

    veshaloachH7971 →845 times

  • וְלֹ֥אand not

    velo'H3808 →5168 times

  • שְׁמַעְתֶּ֖םyou listened

    shema'temH8085 →1159 times

  • נְאֻם־[the] utterance of

    neum-H5002 →376 times

  • יְהוָֽה׃Yahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Jeremiah 7:13

    And now, because you have done all these things, declares the LORD, and because I have spoken to you again and again but you would not listen, and I have called to you but…

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 7:25

      From the day your fathers came out of the land of Egypt until this day, I have sent you all My servants the prophets again and again.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Isaiah 65:12

      I will destine you for the sword, and you will all kneel down to be slaughtered, because I called and you did not answer, I spoke and you did not listen; you did evil…

    • Proverbs 1:24

      Because you refused my call, and no one took my outstretched hand,

  • Through

    Jeremiah 6:19

    Hear, O earth! I am bringing disaster on this people, the fruit of their own schemes, because they have paid no attention to My word and have rejected My instruction.

    it leads to

    • Isaiah 1:2

      Listen, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the LORD has spoken: “I have raised children and brought them up, but they have rebelled against Me.

    • Jeremiah 8:9

      The wise will be put to shame; they will be dismayed and trapped. Since they have rejected the word of the LORD, what wisdom do they really have?

    • Jeremiah 17:10

      I, the LORD, search the heart; I examine the mind to reward a man according to his way, by what his deeds deserve.

  • Through

    Jeremiah 34:17

    Therefore this is what the LORD says: You have not obeyed Me; you have not proclaimed freedom, each man for his brother and for his neighbor. So now I proclaim freedom for you, declares…

    it leads to

    • Matthew 7:2

      For with the same judgment you pronounce, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.

  • Through

    Jeremiah 26:5

    and if you do not listen to the words of My servants the prophets, whom I have sent you again and again even though you did not listen,

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 11:7

      For from the time I brought your fathers out of the land of Egypt until today, I strongly warned them again and again, saying, ‘Obey My voice.’

Where this verse is studied

About Jeremiah

Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem, Rembrandt, 1630. Public domain.
Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem, Rembrandt, 1630. Public domain.

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Carl Friedrich Keil, The Prophecies of Jeremiah; Jerome, Commentary on Jeremiah; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.