Jeremiah 44:4
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4 “Again and again I sent my servants, the prophets, to plead with them, ‘Don’t do these horrible things that I hate so much.’
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Jeremiah 26:5
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5 and if you will not listen to my servants, the prophets—for I sent them again and again to warn you, but you would not listen to them—
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Jeremiah 7:25
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25 From the day your ancestors left Egypt until now, I have continued to send my servants, the prophets—day in and day out.
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Jeremiah 7:13
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13 While you were doing these wicked things, says the Lord, I spoke to you about it repeatedly, but you would not listen. I called out to you, but you refused to answer.
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Zechariah 7:7
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7 Isn’t this the same message the Lord proclaimed through the prophets in years past when Jerusalem and the towns of Judah were bustling with people, and the Negev and the foothills of Judah[a] were well populated?’”
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- 7:7 Hebrew the Shephelah.
Ezekiel 8:10
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10 So I went in and saw the walls covered with engravings of all kinds of crawling animals and detestable creatures. I also saw the various idols[a] worshiped by the people of Israel.
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- 8:10 The Hebrew term (literally round things) probably alludes to dung.
Jeremiah 29:19
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19 For they refuse to listen to me, though I have spoken to them repeatedly through the prophets I sent. And you who are in exile have not listened either,” says the Lord.
Jeremiah 16:18
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18 I will double their punishment for all their sins, because they have defiled my land with lifeless images of their detestable gods and have filled my territory with their evil deeds.”
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2 Chronicles 36:15
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15 The Lord, the God of their ancestors, repeatedly sent his prophets to warn them, for he had compassion on his people and his Temple.
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Revelation 17:4-5
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4 The woman wore purple and scarlet clothing and beautiful jewelry made of gold and precious gems and pearls. In her hand she held a gold goblet full of obscenities and the impurities of her immorality. 5 A mysterious name was written on her forehead: “Babylon the Great, Mother of All Prostitutes and Obscenities in the World.”
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1 Peter 4:3
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3 You have had enough in the past of the evil things that godless people enjoy—their immorality and lust, their feasting and drunkenness and wild parties, and their terrible worship of idols.
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Ezekiel 16:47
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47 But you have not merely sinned as they did. You quickly surpassed them in corruption.
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Ezekiel 16:36
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36 This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Because you have poured out your lust and exposed yourself in prostitution to all your lovers, and because you have worshiped detestable idols,[a] and because you have slaughtered your children as sacrifices to your gods,
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- 16:36 The Hebrew term (literally round things) probably alludes to dung.
Jeremiah 35:17
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17 “Therefore, this is what the Lord God of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Because you refuse to listen or answer when I call, I will send upon Judah and Jerusalem all the disasters I have threatened.’”
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Jeremiah 32:33
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33 My people have turned their backs on me and have refused to return. Even though I diligently taught them, they would not receive instruction or obey.
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Jeremiah 25:3-4
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3 “For the past twenty-three years—from the thirteenth year of the reign of Josiah son of Amon,[a] king of Judah, until now—the Lord has been giving me his messages. I have faithfully passed them on to you, but you have not listened.
4 “Again and again the Lord has sent you his servants, the prophets, but you have not listened or even paid attention.
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- 25:3 The thirteenth year of Josiah’s reign was 627 B.c.
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