Jeremiah 7:21-26
Holman Christian Standard Bible
Obedience Over Sacrifice
21 This is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Add your burnt offerings to your other sacrifices, and eat the meat yourselves,(A) 22 for when I brought your ancestors out of the land of Egypt, I did not speak with them(B) or command them concerning burnt offering and sacrifice. 23 However, I did give them this command: Obey Me, and then I will be your God, and you will be My people. You must follow every way I command you so that it may go well with you.(C) 24 Yet they didn’t listen or pay attention(D) but followed their own advice and according to their own stubborn, evil heart. They went backward and not forward.(E) 25 Since the day your ancestors came out of the land of Egypt until this day, I have sent all My servants the prophets(F) to you time and time again.[a](G) 26 However, they wouldn’t listen to Me or pay attention but became obstinate;[b](H) they did more evil than their ancestors.(I)
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- Jeremiah 7:25 Lit you, each day rising early and sending
- Jeremiah 7:26 Lit but stiffened their neck
Jeremiah 7:21-26
International Standard Version
21 This is what the Lord of the Heavenly Armies, the God of Israel, says:
“Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat the meat. 22 Indeed, when I brought your ancestors out of the land of Egypt, I didn’t speak or command them about burnt offering and sacrifice, 23 but I did give them this command:[a] ‘Obey me and I’ll be your God, and you will be my people. Walk in all the ways that I command you so it will go well for you.’ 24 But they didn’t listen,[b] nor did they pay attention.[c] They pursued their own plans,[d] stubbornly following their own evil desires.[e] They went backward and not forward. 25 From the day your ancestors left the land of Egypt to this present time, I’ve sent all my servants, the prophets, to you, again and again.[f] 26 But they didn’t listen to me, and they didn’t pay attention.[g] They stiffened their necks, and they did more evil than their ancestors.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 7:23 Lit. I commanded them this word
- Jeremiah 7:24 Or obey
- Jeremiah 7:24 Lit. incline their ears
- Jeremiah 7:24 Lit. They walked in plans
- Jeremiah 7:24 Lit. following the stubbornness of their evil hearts
- Jeremiah 7:25 Lit. daily getting up early and sending them
- Jeremiah 7:26 Lit. incline their ears
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