“Tell them all this, but do not expect them to listen. Shout out your warnings, but do not expect them to respond.
Parallel translations
- WEB “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.
- KJV Therefore thou shalt speak all these words unto them; but they will not hearken to thee: thou shalt also call unto them; but they will not answer thee.
- BSB When you tell them all these things, they will not listen to you. When you call to them, they will not answer.
- NKJV “Therefore you shall speak all these words to them, but they will not obey you. You shall also call to them, but they will not answer you.
- NASB “So you shall speak all these words to them, but they will not listen to you; and you shall call to them, but they will not answer you.
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Quick answer
God forewarns Jeremiah that the people will neither listen nor answer when he speaks. Faithful ministry sometimes meets persistent rejection.
Overview
God prepares His prophet for a hard reception, knowing the people's hearts. Jeremiah is called to be faithful regardless of results. This sober commission reminds servants of God that obedience in proclamation, not visible success, is the measure of faithfulness, a pattern ultimately seen in Christ's own rejection.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 11
- Isa 65:12I will destine you to the sword, and you will all bow down to the slaughter; because when I called, you didn’t answer. When I spoke, you didn’t listen; but you did that which was evil in my eyes, and chose that in which I didn’t delight.”
- Isa 50:2Why, when I came, was there no one? when I called, why was there no one to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it can’t redeem? or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea. I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stink, because there is no water, and die for thirst.
- Zech 7:13It has come to pass that, as he called, and they refused to listen, so they will call, and I will not listen,” said Yahweh of Armies;
- Jer 26:2“Yahweh says: ‘Stand in the court of Yahweh’s house, and speak to all the cities of Judah, which come to worship in Yahweh’s house, all the words that I command you to speak to them. Don’t omit a word.
- Jer 1:7But Yahweh said to me, “Don’t say, ‘I am a child;’ for you must go to whomever I send you, and you must say whatever I command you.
- Isa 6:9–10He said, “Go, and tell this people, ‘You hear indeed, but don’t understand; and you see indeed, but don’t perceive.’
- Acts 20:27for I didn’t shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.
- Ezek 3:17–18“Son of man, I have made you a watchman to the house of Israel. Therefore hear the word from my mouth, and warn them from me.
- Jer 1:19They will fight against you, but they will not prevail against you; for I am with you”, says Yahweh, “to rescue you.”
- Ezek 3:4–11He said to me, “Son of man, go to the house of Israel, and speak my words to them.
- Ezek 2:4–7The children are impudent and stiff-hearted. I am sending you to them, and you shall tell them, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh.’
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Against the failure of false shepherds Jeremiah promises the Righteous Branch, 'The LORD our righteousness,' and the new covenant written on the heart and sealed in the blood of Christ.
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