^29:19For they have not paid attention to what I said to them through my servants the prophets whom I sent to them over and over again,’³⁶ says the Lord.³⁷ ‘And you exiles³⁸ have not paid any attention to them either,’ says the Lord.³⁹

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Footnotes

36 See the translator’s note on for an explanation of this idiom.
37 Heb “Oracle of the Lord.”
38 The word “exiles” is not in the text. It is supplied in the translation to clarify the referent of “you.”
39 Heb “Oracle of the Lord.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

because they did not pay attention to my words, declares the Lord, that I persistently sent to you by my servants the prophets, but you would not listen, declares the Lord.’

NIVNew International Version (2011)

For they have not listened to my words,” declares the Lord, “words that I sent to them again and again by my servants the prophets. And you exiles have not listened either,” declares the Lord.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

I will do this because they have not listened to my words”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“the words that I sent to them with my servants the prophets time and time again. And you too have not listened.” This is the Lord’s declaration.

NLTNew Living Translation

For they refuse to listen to me, though I have spoken to them repeatedly through the prophets I sent. And you who are in exile have not listened either,” says the Lord.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

because they did not listen to my words,’ declares Yahweh, ‘when I sent to them my servants the prophets, sending over and over again, and they would not listen,’ declares Yahweh.

KJV 1900King James Version

Because they have not hearkened to my words, saith the Lord, which I sent unto them by my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them; but ye would not hear, saith the Lord.

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