Jeremias 25:7
And you have not heard me, saith the Lord, that you might provoke me to anger with the works of your hands, to your own hurt.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et non audistis me, dicit Dominus, ut me ad iracundiam provocaretis in operibus manuum vestrarum, in malum vestrum.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ οὐκ ἠκούσατέ μου.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְלֹֽא שְׁמַעְתֶּ֥ם אֵלַ֖י נְאֻם יְהוָ֑ה לְמַ֧עַן הכעסוני בְּמַעֲשֵׂ֥ה יְדֵיכֶ֖ם לְרַ֥ע לָכֶֽם
The Fathers on this verse
St Cyprian Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews, Testimony II
In Jeremiah the Lord says: “I have sent unto I you my servants the prophets. Before the daylight I sent them (and ye heard me not, and did not listen with your ears), saying, Let every one of you be converted from his evil way, and from your most wicked desires; and ye shall dwell in that land which I have given you and your fathers for ever and ever.” And again: “Go not after other gods, to serve them, and do not worship them; and provoke me not to anger in the works of your hands to scatter you abroad; and ye have not hearkened unto me.” Also in the third book of the Kings, Elias saith unto the Lord: “In being jealous I have been jealous for the Lord God Almighty; because the children of Israel have forsaken Thee, have demolished Thine altars, and have slain Thy prophets with the sword; and I have remained solitary, and they seek my life, to take it away from me.” In Ezra also: “They h …