(A)Neither have we heeded Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your name to our kings and our princes, to our fathers and all the people of the land.

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The Fall of Jerusalem(A)

15 (B)And the Lord God of their fathers sent warnings to them by His messengers, rising up early and sending them, because He had compassion on His people and on His dwelling place. 16 But (C)they mocked the messengers of God, (D)despised His words, and (E)scoffed at His prophets, until the (F)wrath of the Lord arose against His people, till there was no remedy.

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Israel Resists the Holy Spirit

51 You (A)stiff-necked[a] and (B)uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you. 52 (C)Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who foretold the coming of (D)the Just One, of whom you now have become the betrayers and murderers,

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  1. Acts 7:51 stubborn

10 Now at [a]vintage-time he (A)sent a servant to the vinedressers, that they might give him some of the fruit of the vineyard. But the vinedressers beat him and sent him away empty-handed. 11 Again he sent another servant; and they beat him also, treated him shamefully, and sent him away empty-handed. 12 And again he sent a third; and they wounded him also and cast him out.

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  1. Luke 20:10 Lit. the season

However (A)I have sent to you all My servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, saying, “Oh, do not do this abominable thing that I hate!” But they did not listen or incline their ear to turn from their wickedness, to burn no incense to other gods.

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34 Neither our kings nor our princes,
Our priests nor our fathers,
Have kept Your law,
Nor heeded Your commandments and Your testimonies,
With which You testified against them.

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Since the days of our fathers to this day (A)we have been very guilty, and for our iniquities (B)we, our kings, and our priests have been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the (C)sword, to captivity, to plunder, and to (D)humiliation,[a] as it is this day.

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  1. Ezra 9:7 Lit. shame of faces

15 (A)who killed both the Lord Jesus and (B)their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they do not please God (C)and are [a]contrary to all men, 16 (D)forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved, so as always (E)to fill up the measure of their sins; (F)but wrath has come upon them to the uttermost.

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  1. 1 Thessalonians 2:15 hostile

27 For those who dwell in Jerusalem, and their rulers, (A)because they did not know Him, nor even the voices of the Prophets which are read every Sabbath, have fulfilled them in condemning Him.

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Jesus Laments over Jerusalem(A)

37 (B)“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets (C)and stones those who are sent to her! How often (D)I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks (E)under her wings, but you were not willing!

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34 Now when vintage-time drew near, he sent his servants to the vinedressers, that they might receive its fruit. 35 (A)And the vinedressers took his servants, beat one, killed one, and stoned another. 36 Again he sent other servants, more than the first, and they did likewise to them. 37 Then last of all he sent his (B)son to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’ 38 But when the vinedressers saw the son, they said among themselves, (C)‘This is the heir. (D)Come, let us kill him and seize his inheritance.’ 39 (E)So they took him and cast him out of the vineyard and killed him.

40 “Therefore, when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those vinedressers?”

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Disobedience Resulted in Captivity

Then the word of the Lord came to Zechariah, saying, “Thus says the Lord of hosts:

(A)‘Execute true justice,
Show [a]mercy and compassion
Everyone to his brother.
10 (B)Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless,
The alien or the poor.
(C)Let none of you plan evil in his heart
Against his brother.’

11 “But they refused to heed, (D)shrugged[b] their shoulders, and (E)stopped[c] their ears so that they could not hear. 12 Yes, they made their (F)hearts like flint, (G)refusing to hear the law and the words which the Lord of hosts had sent by His Spirit through the former prophets. (H)Thus great wrath came from the Lord of hosts.

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  1. Zechariah 7:9 Or lovingkindness
  2. Zechariah 7:11 Lit. gave a stubborn or rebellious shoulder
  3. Zechariah 7:11 Lit. made their ears heavy

“Do not be like your fathers, (A)to whom the former prophets preached, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts: (B)“Turn now from your evil ways and your evil deeds.” ’ But they did not hear nor heed Me,” says the Lord.

“Your fathers, where are they?
And the prophets, do they live forever?
Yet surely (C)My words and My statutes,
Which I commanded My servants the prophets,
Did they not overtake your fathers?

“So they returned and said:

(D)‘Just as the Lord of hosts determined to do to us,
According to our ways and according to our deeds,
So He has dealt with us.’ ” ’ ”

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10 We have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in His laws, which He set before us by His servants the prophets.

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16 As for the word that you have spoken to us in the name of the Lord, (A)we will not listen to you!

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32 because of all the evil of the children of Israel and the children of Judah, which they have done to provoke Me to anger—(A)they, their kings, their princes, their priests, (B)their prophets, the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 33 And they have turned to Me the (C)back, and not the face; though I taught them, (D)rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not listened to receive instruction.

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19 because they have not heeded My words, says the Lord, which (A)I sent to them by My servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them; neither would you heed, says the Lord.

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to heed the words of My servants the prophets (A)whom I sent to you, both rising up early and sending them (but you have not heeded),

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(A)“From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, even to this day, this is the twenty-third year in which the word of the Lord has come to me; and I have spoken to you, rising early and speaking, (B)but you have not listened. And the Lord has sent to you all His servants the prophets, (C)rising early and sending them, but you have not listened nor inclined your ear to hear. They said, (D)‘Repent now everyone of his evil way and his evil doings, and dwell in the land that the Lord has given to you and your fathers forever and ever. Do not go after other gods to serve them and worship them, and do not provoke Me to anger with the works of your hands; and I will not harm you.’ Yet you have not listened to Me,” says the Lord, “that you might (E)provoke Me to anger with the works of your hands to your own hurt.

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25 Since the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt until this day, I have even (A)sent to you all My servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them. 26 (B)Yet they did not obey Me or incline their ear, but (C)stiffened their neck. (D)They did worse than their fathers.

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13 And now, because you have done all these works,” says the Lord, “and I spoke to you, (A)rising up early and speaking, but you did not hear, and I (B)called you, but you did not answer,

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16 Thus says the Lord:

“Stand in the ways and see,
And ask for the (A)old paths, where the good way is,
And walk in it;
Then you will find (B)rest for your souls.
But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.
17 Also, I set (C)watchmen over you, saying,
(D)‘Listen to the sound of the trumpet!’
But they said, ‘We will not listen.’

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10 (A)Who say to the seers, “Do not see,”
And to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us right things;
(B)Speak to us smooth things, prophesy deceits.
11 Get out of the way,
Turn aside from the path,
Cause the Holy One of Israel
To cease from before us.”

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32 “Now therefore, our God,
The great, the (A)mighty, and awesome God,
Who keeps covenant and mercy:
Do not let all the [a]trouble seem small before You
That has come upon us,
Our kings and our princes,
Our priests and our prophets,
Our fathers and on all Your people,
(B)From the days of the kings of Assyria until this day.

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  1. Nehemiah 9:32 hardship

Manasseh Restored After Repentance

10 And the Lord spoke to Manasseh and his people, but they would not [a]listen.

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  1. 2 Chronicles 33:10 obey

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