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Jeremiah 17:23 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" But they didn’t listen. They didn’t turn their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, and might not receive instruction. "

Jeremiah 17:23

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21 The LORD says, “Be careful, and bear no burden on the Sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem.

22 Don’t carry a burden out of your houses on the Sabbath day. Don’t do any work, but make the Sabbath day holy, as I commanded your fathers.

23 But they didn’t listen. They didn’t turn their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, and might not receive instruction.

24 It will happen, if you diligently listen to me,” says the LORD, “to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, but to make the Sabbath day holy, to do no work therein;

25 then there will enter in by the gates of this city kings and princes sitting on David’s throne, riding in chariots and on horses, they and their princes, the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and this city will remain forever.

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"and testified against them, that you might bring them again to your law. Yet they were arrogant, and didn’t listen to your commandments, but sinned against your ordinances (which if a man does, he shall live in them), turned their backs, stiffened their neck, and would not hear."

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"For I know that they will not hear me, because they are a stiff-necked people; but in the land of their captivity they will take it to heart,"

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Jeremiah 17:1

"“The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond. It is engraved on the tablet of their heart, and on the horns of your altars."

Jeremiah 17:2

"Even their children remember their altars and their Asherah poles by the green trees on the high hills."

Jeremiah 17:3

"My mountain in the field, I will give your substance and all your treasures for a plunder, and your high places, because of sin, throughout all your borders."

Jeremiah 17:4

"You, even of yourself, will discontinue from your heritage that I gave you. I will cause you to serve your enemies in the land which you don’t know, for you have kindled a fire in my anger which will burn forever.”"

Jeremiah 17:5

"The LORD says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man, relies on strength of flesh, and whose heart departs from the LORD."

Jeremiah 17:6

"For he will be like a bush in the desert, and will not see when good comes, but will inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, an uninhabited salt land."

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