⁴Do not be like your ancestors,^h to whom the earlier prophetsⁱ proclaimed: This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘Turn from your evil ways^j and your evil practices.’ But they would not listen or pay attention to me,^k declares the Lord.^l

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Cross references

hSee 2 Ch 36:15
i Zec 7:7
jSee 2 Ki 17:13; See 2 Ch 7:14; Ps 106:6; See Jer 23:22
kSee 2 Ch 24:19; Ps 78:8; See Jer 6:17; 17:23
lSee Eze 20:18; See 33:4

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets cried out, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, Return from your evil ways and from your evil deeds.’ But they did not hear or pay attention to me, declares the Lord.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Do not be like your ancestors; the earlier prophets proclaimed to them: This is what the Lord of Armies says: Turn from your evil ways and your evil deeds. But they did not listen or pay attention to me—this is the Lord’s declaration.

NLTNew Living Translation

Don’t be like your ancestors who would not listen or pay attention when the earlier prophets said to them, ‘This is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies says: Turn from your evil ways, and stop all your evil practices.’

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

“Do not be like your ancestors, to whom the former prophets proclaimed, saying, ‘Thus says Yahweh of hosts: “Return from your evil ways and your evil deeds!” ’ But they did not hear and they did not pay attention to me,” declares Yahweh.

KJV 1900King James Version

Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets have cried, saying,

Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Turn ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings:

But they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, saith the Lord.

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