Holy Scripture
Jeremiah 7:27
A church father on this verse
“"Have no doubt," he says, "that they are stiff-necked and that their works are worse than those of their ancestors. Behold, I give them a place of penance. I do not speak that they may repent, but I only predict what is coming. In any event, you will now speak my word to them and they will not listen to you, and you w…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
27Therefore thou shalt speak this word to them;
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In context
25from the day that their fathers went forth out of the land of Egypt, even until this day. And I sent to you all my servants, the prophets, by day and early in the morning: yea, I sent them,
26but they hearkened not to me, and their ear gave no heed; and they made their neck harder than their fathers.
— Jeremiah 7:27 —
28This is the nation which has not hearkened to the voice of the Lord, nor received correction: truth has failed from their mouth.
29Cut off thy hair, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on thy lips; for the Lord has reprobated and rejected the generation that does these things.