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Yet you have not listened to me, says Yahweh; that you may provoke me to anger with the work of your hands to your own hurt.
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The Nature of Rebellion
Commentators explain that Judah's failure to listen was not from ignorance but from willful obstinacy. The phrase "that you might provoke me" is interpreted as a charge of deliberate wickedness. When people repeatedly hear God's call and refuse to obey, it is viewed not as a simple mistake but as a conscious act of rebellion.
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Jeremiah
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16th Century
Protestant
He proves what he had said before: that the Jews had been completely disobedient, even though God had kindly offered and shown that He would be rec…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Yet you have not listened to me, says the Lord Though it was he that spoke to them by his prophets; and though it was so …
Presbyterian
The call to turn from evil ways to the worship and service of God, and for sinners to trust in Christ and partake of his salvation, concerns all pe…
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13th Century
Catholic
Here, he gives the universal threat against the princes of all the nations, and it is divided into two parts.
In the first part, he speaks o…
