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Jeremiah 7:24

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.

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ASV

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.

KJV

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.

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OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
וְלֹ֤אve.Lo'and notH3808 →
שָֽׁמְעוּ֙sha.me.'Uthey listenedH8085 →
וְלֹֽא־ve.lo'-and notH3808 →
הִטּ֣וּhi.Tuthey inclinedH5186 →
אֶת־'et-<obj.>H853 →
אָזְנָ֔ם'a.ze.Namear theirH241 →
וַיֵּֽלְכוּ֙vai.ye.le.Khuand they walkedH1980 →
בְּמֹ֣עֵצ֔וֹתbe.Mo.'e.Tzotin counselsH4156 →
בִּשְׁרִר֖וּתbish.ri.Rutin [the] stubbornness ofH8307 →
לִבָּ֣םli.Bamheart theirH3820 →
הָרָ֑עha.Ra'<the> evilH7451 →
וַיִּהְי֥וּvai.yih.Yuand they wereH1961 →
לְאָח֖וֹרle.'a.Chor<to> backwardsH268 →
וְלֹ֥אve.Lo'and notH3808 →
לְפָנִֽים׃le.fa.Nim<to> forwardsH6440 →

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Hebrews 3:12See to it, brothers, that none of you has a wicked heart of unbelief that turns away from the living God.Psalms 81:12So I gave them up to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices.Psalms 81:11–12But My people would not listen to Me, and Israel would not obey Me.Isaiah 65:2All day long I have held out My hands to an obstinate people who walk in the wrong path, who follow their own imaginations,Jeremiah 31:22How long will you wander, O faithless daughter? For the LORD has created a new thing in the land—a woman will shelter a man.”Jeremiah 7:26Yet they would not listen to Me or incline their ear, but they stiffened their necks and did more evil than their fathers.Jeremiah 8:5Why then have these people turned away? Why does Jerusalem always turn away? They cling to deceit; they refuse to return.Deuteronomy 29:19because when such a person hears the words of this oath, he invokes a blessing on himself, saying, ‘I will have peace, even though I walk in the stubbornness of my own heart.’ This will bring disaster on the watered land as well as the dry.Jeremiah 11:8Yet they would not obey or incline their ears, but each one followed the stubbornness of his evil heart. So I brought on them all the curses of this covenant I had commanded them to follow but they did not keep.”Jeremiah 9:14Instead, they have followed the stubbornness of their hearts and gone after the Baals, as their fathers taught them.”Hosea 10:6Yes, it will be carried to Assyria as tribute to the great king. Ephraim will be seized with shame; Israel will be ashamed of its wooden idols.Jeremiah 18:12But they will reply, ‘It is hopeless. We will follow our own plans, and each of us will act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.’”Ezekiel 20:13Yet the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness. They did not follow My statutes and they rejected My ordinances—though the man who does these things will live by them—and they utterly profaned My Sabbaths. Then I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and put an end to them in the wilderness.Jeremiah 32:33They have turned their backs to Me and not their faces. Though I taught them again and again, they would not listen or respond to discipline.Micah 6:16You have kept the statutes of Omri and all the practices of Ahab’s house; you have followed their counsel. Therefore I will make you a desolation, and your inhabitants an object of contempt; you will bear the scorn of the nations.”Exodus 32:7–8Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go down at once, for your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves.Hosea 4:16For Israel is as obstinate as a stubborn heifer. Can the LORD now shepherd them like lambs in an open meadow?Jeremiah 15:6You have forsaken Me, declares the LORD. You have turned your back. So I will stretch out My hand against you and I will destroy you; I am weary of showing compassion.

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