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Judgment on the Jews in Egypt

Jeremiah 44:5

In 11 translations

BSB
But they did not listen or incline their ears; they did not turn from their wickedness or stop burning incense to other gods.
KJV
But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear to turn from their wickedness, to burn no incense unto other gods.
WEB
But they didn’t listen and didn’t incline their ear. They didn’t turn from their wickedness, to stop burning incense to other gods.
ASV
But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear to turn from their wickedness, to burn no incense unto other gods.
LSV
and they have not listened nor inclined their ear to turn back from their wickedness, not to make incense to other gods,
YLT
and they have not hearkened nor inclined their ear, to turn back from their wickedness, not to make perfume to other gods,
DBY
But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear to turn from their wickedness, to burn no incense unto other gods.Elohim
DRC
But they heard not, nor inclined their ear to turn from their evil ways, and not to sacrifice to strange gods.
GNV
But they would not heare nor incline their eare to turne from their wickednes, and to burne no more incense vnto other gods.
JPS
But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear to turn from their wickedness, to forbear offering unto other gods.
LXXE51:5
But they hearkened not to me, and inclined not their ear to turn from their wickedness, so as not to burn incense to strange gods.

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WLC
וְלֹ֤א שָֽׁמְעוּ֙ וְלֹא־הִטּ֣וּ אֶת־אָזְנָ֔ם לָשׁ֖וּב מֵרָֽעָתָ֑ם לְבִלְתִּ֥י קַטֵּ֖ר לֵאלֹהִ֥ים אֲחֵרִֽים׃
LXX-Br51:5
Καὶ οὐκ ἤκουσάν μου, καὶ οὐκ ἔκλιναν τὸ οὖς αὐτῶν ἀποστρέψαι ἀπὸ τῶν κακῶν αὐτῶν, πρὸς τὸ μὴ θυμιᾷν θεοῖς ἑτέροις.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Jeremiah 11:10They have returned to the sins of their forefathers who refused to obey My words. They have followed other gods to serve them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken the covenant I made with their…
  • Jeremiah 19:13The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will be defiled like that place, Topheth—all the houses on whose rooftops they burned incense to all the host of heaven and poured out drink offerings to…
  • Jeremiah 11:8Yet they would not obey or incline their ears, but each one followed the stubbornness of his evil heart. So I brought on them all the curses of this covenant I had commanded them to follow but they did not keep.”
  • Psalms 81:11–13But My people would not listen to Me, and Israel would not obey Me. So I gave them up to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices. If only My people would listen to Me, if Israel would follow My ways,
  • Isaiah 48:4For I knew that you are stubborn; your neck is iron and your forehead is bronze.
  • 2 Chronicles 36:16But they mocked the messengers of God, despising His words and scoffing at His prophets, until the wrath of the LORD against His people was stirred up beyond remedy.
  • Jeremiah 7:24Yet they did not listen or incline their ear, but they followed the stubborn inclinations of their own evil hearts. They went backward and not forward.
  • Isaiah 48:18If only you had paid attention to My commandments, your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like waves of the sea.
  • Jeremiah 44:17–21Instead, we will do everything we vowed to do: We will burn incense to the Queen of Heaven and offer drink offerings to her, just as we, our fathers, our kings, and our officials did in the cities of Judah and in the…
  • Zechariah 7:11–12But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder; they stopped up their ears from hearing. They made their hearts like flint and would not listen to the law or to the words that the LORD of Hosts had…
  • Revelation 2:21–22Even though I have given her time to repent of her immorality, she is unwilling. Behold, I will cast her onto a bed of sickness, and those who commit adultery with her will suffer great tribulation unless they repent…

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  • 51:5 in some Bibles
  • 44:5 in most Bibles

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