Jeremiah 26:5
3 Perhaps they will listen and turn—each from his evil way of life—so that I may relent of the disaster I am planning to bring upon them because of the evil of their deeds.
4 And you are to tell them that this is what the LORD says: ‘If you do not listen to Me and walk in My law, which I have set before you,
and if you do not listen to the words of My servants the prophets, whom I have sent you again and again even though you did not listen,
6 then I will make this house like Shiloh, and I will make this city an object of cursing among all the nations of the earth.’”
7 Now the priests and prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the LORD,
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- and if you do not listen to the words of My servants the prophets, whom I have sent you again and again even though you did not listen,
- KJV
- To hearken to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I sent unto you, both rising up early, and sending them, but ye have not hearkened;
- WEB
- to listen to the words of my servants the prophets whom I send to you, even rising up early and sending them—but you have not listened—
- ASV
- to hearken to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I send unto you, even rising up early and sending them, but ye have not hearkened;
- DARBY
- to hearken unto the words of my servants the prophets, whom I have sent unto you, even rising early and sending [them], but ye have not hearkened,
- BLB
- to listen to the words of My servants the prophets, whom I am sending to you⁺, rising up early and sending [them]—and you⁺ have not listened—
- ÅB
- og hører på mine tjenere profetenes ord, dem som jeg sender til dere både tidlig og sent, uten at dere hører,
- OTB
- og hvis dere ikke hører på ordene fra mine tjenere profetene, som jeg har sendt til dere vedvarende, selv om dere ikke har lyttet,
- B1930
- og hører på mine tjenere profetenes ord, dem som jeg sender til eder både tidlig og sent, uten at I hører,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Jeremiah 11:7
For from the time I brought your fathers out of the land of Egypt until today, I strongly warned them again and again, saying, ‘Obey My voice.’
Read in contextJeremiah 7:13
And now, because you have done all these things, declares the LORD, and because I have spoken to you again and again but you would not listen, and I have called to you but you would not answer,
Read in context2 Kings 9:7
And you are to strike down the house of your master Ahab, so that I may avenge the blood of My servants the prophets and the blood of all the servants of the LORD shed by the hand of Jezebel.
Read in contextJeremiah 7:25
From the day your fathers came out of the land of Egypt until this day, I have sent you all My servants the prophets again and again.
Read in contextJeremiah 25:3–4
“From the thirteenth year of Josiah son of Amon king of Judah until this very day—twenty-three years—the word of the LORD has come to me, and I have spoken to you again and again, but you have not listened.
Read in contextEzra 9:11
that You gave through Your servants the prophets, saying: ‘The land that you are entering to possess is a land polluted by the impurity of its peoples and the abominations with which they have filled it from end to end.
Read in contextAmos 3:7
Surely the Lord GOD does nothing without revealing His plan to His servants the prophets.
Read in contextRevelation 10:7
But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he is about to sound his trumpet, the mystery of God will be fulfilled, just as He proclaimed to His servants the prophets.”
Read in context