World English Bible
Jeremiah 6:17
“I set watchmen over you, saying, 'Listen to the sound of the trumpet!' But they said, 'We will not listen!”
Verse in context — Jeremiah 6
Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush. Therefore they shall fall among those who fall; at the time that I visit them, they shall be cast down," says Yahweh.
Thus says Yahweh, "Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, 'Where is the good way?' and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, 'We will not walk in it.
I set watchmen over you, saying, 'Listen to the sound of the trumpet!' But they said, 'We will not listen!
Therefore hear, you nations, and know, congregation, what is among them.
Hear, earth! Behold, I will bring evil on this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not listened to my words; and as for my law, they have rejected it.
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