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Jeremiah 7:26
Yet they didn’t listen to me or incline their ear, but made their neck stiff. They did worse than their fathers.
Jeremiah 7:26 · World English Bible
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Jeremiah 7:26 in other translations
Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.
Yet they would not listen to Me or incline their ear, but they stiffened their necks and did more evil than their fathers.
yet they did not listen to me, nor inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff: they did worse than their fathers."
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In context
23 but this thing I commanded them, saying, ‘Listen to my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people. Walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.’
24 But they didn’t listen or turn their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.
25 Since the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt to this day, I have sent to you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them.
26 Yet they didn’t listen to me or incline their ear, but made their neck stiff. They did worse than their fathers.
27 “You shall speak all these words to them, but they will not listen to you. You shall also call to them, but they will not answer you.
28 You shall tell them, ‘This is the nation that has not listened to the LORD their God’s voice, nor received instruction. Truth has perished, and is cut off from their mouth.’
29 Cut off your hair, and throw it away, and take up a lamentation on the bare heights; for the LORD has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.
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