Jeremiah 6:10
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“To whom can I give this warning? Who will listen to me? Look, their ears are closed, so they cannot hear. See, the word of the LORD has become offensive to them; they find no pleasure in it.”
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“To whom can I give this warning? Who will listen to me? Look, their ears are closed, so they cannot hear. See, the word of the LORD has become offensive to them; they find no pleasure in it.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of the Lord is unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it.”
King James Version · Public Domain“To whom shall I speak and testify, that they may hear? behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of Jehovah is become unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“To whom do I speak, and testify, and they hear? Lo, their ear <FI>is<Fi> uncircumcised, And they are not able to attend. Lo, a word of Jehovah hath been to them for a reproach, They delight not in it.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Jeremiah 6:10 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 6:12But in the LORD’s presence Moses replied, “If the Israelites will not listen to me, then why would Pharaoh listen to me, since I am unskilled in speech?”
- Deuteronomy 29:4Yet to this day the LORD has not given you a mind to understand, eyes to see, or ears to hear.
- 2 Chronicles 36:15Again and again the LORD, the God of their fathers, sent word to His people through His messengers because He had compassion on them and on His dwelling place.
- Psalms 1:2But his delight is in the Law of the LORD, and on His law he meditates day and night.
- Psalms 40:8I delight to do Your will, O my God; Your law is within my heart.”
- Psalms 119:16I will delight in Your statutes; I will not forget Your word.
- Psalms 119:24Your testimonies are indeed my delight; they are my counselors.
- Psalms 119:35Direct me in the path of Your commandments, for there I find delight.
- Psalms 119:70Their hearts are hard and callous, but I delight in Your law.
- Psalms 119:77May Your compassion come to me, that I may live, for Your law is my delight.
- Psalms 119:174I long for Your salvation, O LORD, and Your law is my delight.
- Isaiah 6:9And He replied: “Go and tell this people, ‘Be ever hearing, but never understanding; be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’
- Isaiah 28:9Whom is He trying to teach? To whom is He explaining His message? To infants just weaned from milk? To babies removed from the breast?
- Isaiah 42:20Though seeing many things, you do not keep watch. Though your ears are open, you do not hear.”
- Isaiah 42:23Who among you will pay attention to this? Who will listen and obey hereafter?
- Isaiah 53:1Who has believed our message? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?
- Jeremiah 4:4Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and remove the foreskins of your hearts, O men of Judah and people of Jerusalem. Otherwise, My wrath will break out like fire and burn with no one to extinguish it, because of your evil deeds.”
- Jeremiah 5:4Then I said, “They are only the poor; they have played the fool, for they do not know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God.
- Jeremiah 7:13And 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 you would not answer,
- 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 20:8For whenever I speak, I cry out; I proclaim violence and destruction. For the word of the LORD has become to me a reproach and derision all day long.
- Jeremiah 35:13“This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Go and tell the men of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem: ‘Will you not accept discipline and obey My words?’ declares the LORD.
- Ezekiel 3:7But the house of Israel will be unwilling to listen to you, since they are unwilling to listen to Me. For the whole house of Israel is hard-headed and hard-hearted.
- Ezekiel 3:18If I say to the wicked man, ‘You will surely die,’ but you do not warn him or speak out to warn him from his wicked way to save his life, that wicked man will die in his iniquity, and I will hold you responsible for his blood.
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