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Selected Verse: Jeremiah 35:17 - King James

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Jer 35:17 King James Therefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring upon Judah and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evil that I have pronounced against them: because I have spoken unto them, but they have not heard; and I have called unto them, but they have not answered.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
because I have spoken . . . not heard . . . I . . . called . . . not answered-- (Pro 1:24; Isa 65:12).
 
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12 Therefore will I number you to the sword, and ye shall all bow down to the slaughter: because when I called, ye did not answer; when I spake, ye did not hear; but did evil before mine eyes, and did choose that wherein I delighted not.
24 Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;