A moment in scripture
Jeremiah 26:5
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;
The surrounding passage
- Jeremiah 26:3
If so be they will hearken, and turn every man from his evil way, that I may repent me of the evil, which I purpose to do unto them because of the evil of their doings.
- Jeremiah 26:4
And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord; If ye will not hearken to me, to walk in my law, which I have set before you,
- Jeremiah 26:6
Then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.
- Jeremiah 26:7
So the priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the Lord.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.