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They went backward and not forward. <a href="/nlt/jeremiah/7.htm">New Living Translation</a> “But my people would not listen to me. They kept doing whatever they wanted, following the stubborn desires of their evil hearts. They went backward instead of forward. <a href="/esv/jeremiah/7.htm">English Standard Version</a> But they did not obey or incline their ear, but walked in their own counsels and the stubbornness of their evil hearts, and went backward and not forward. <a href="/bsb/jeremiah/7.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a> Yet they did not listen or incline their ear, but they followed the stubborn inclinations of their own evil hearts. They went backward and not forward. <a href="/kjv/jeremiah/7.htm">King James Bible</a> But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward. <a href="/nkjv/jeremiah/7.htm">New King James Version</a> Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but followed the counsels and the dictates of their evil hearts, and went backward and not forward. <a href="/nasb_/jeremiah/7.htm">New American Standard Bible</a> Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but walked by their own advice and in the stubbornness of their evil hearts, and they went backward and not forward. <a href="/nasb/jeremiah/7.htm">NASB 1995</a> &#8220Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward and not forward. <a href="/nasb77/jeremiah/7.htm">NASB 1977 </a> “Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward and not forward. <a href="/lsb/jeremiah/7.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> Yet they did not listen or incline their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart and went backward and not forward. <a href="/amp/jeremiah/7.htm">Amplified Bible</a> But they did not obey Me or bend their ear [to hear Me], but followed the counsels and the stubbornness of their [own] evil heart (mind), and [they turned and] went backward instead of forward. <a href="/csb/jeremiah/7.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> Yet they didn’t listen or pay attention but followed their own advice and their own stubborn, evil heart. They went backward and not forward. <a href="/hcsb/jeremiah/7.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> Yet they didn&#8217t listen or pay attention but followed their own advice and according to their own stubborn, evil heart. They went backward and not forward. <a href="/asv/jeremiah/7.htm">American Standard Version</a> But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward. <a href="/cev/jeremiah/7.htm">Contemporary English Version</a> But your ancestors refused to listen. They were stubborn, and whenever I wanted them to go one way, they always went the other. <a href="/erv/jeremiah/7.htm">English Revised Version</a> But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward and not forward. <a href="/gwt/jeremiah/7.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> But they didn't obey me or pay attention to me. They followed their own plans and their stubborn, evil ways. They went backward and not forward. <a href="/gnt/jeremiah/7.htm">Good News Translation</a> But they did not obey or pay any attention. Instead, they did whatever their stubborn and evil hearts told them to do, and they became worse instead of better. <a href="/isv/jeremiah/7.htm">International Standard Version</a> But they didn't listen, nor did they pay attention. They pursued their own plans, stubbornly following their own evil desires. They went backward and not forward. <a href="/msb/jeremiah/7.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> Yet they did not listen or incline their ear, but they followed the stubborn inclinations of their own evil hearts. They went backward and not forward. <a href="/net/jeremiah/7.htm">NET Bible</a> But they did not listen to me or pay any attention to me. They followed the stubborn inclinations of their own wicked hearts. They acted worse and worse instead of better. <a href="/nheb/jeremiah/7.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> But they did not listen nor turn their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward. <a href="/wbt/jeremiah/7.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward. <a href="/web/jeremiah/7.htm">World English Bible</a> But they didn’t listen or turn their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward. <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/jeremiah/7.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> And they have not listened, nor inclined their ear, "" And they walk in the counsels, "" [And] in the stubbornness, of their evil hearts, "" And are backward and not forward. <a href="/ylt/jeremiah/7.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> And they have not hearkened, nor inclined their ear, And they walk in the counsels, In the stubbornness, of their evil heart, And are for backward, and not for forward. <a href="/slt/jeremiah/7.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> And they heard not and inclined not their ear, and they went in the counsels in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and they shall be for behind and not before.<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/jeremiah/7.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear: but walked in their own will, and in the perversity of their wicked heart: and went backward and not forward, <a href="/cpdv/jeremiah/7.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> But they did not listen, nor did they incline their ear. Instead, they walked by their own will and in the depravity of their own wicked heart. And so, they went backward, and not forward, <a href="/nabre/jeremiah/7.htm">New American Bible</a> But they did not listen to me, nor did they pay attention. They walked in the stubbornness of their evil hearts and turned their backs, not their faces, to me. <a href="/nrsvce/jeremiah/7.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but, in the stubbornness of their evil will, they walked in their own counsels, and looked backward rather than forward.<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/jeremiah/7.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> But they did not listen nor incline their ear to hear, but they walked in their own counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward and not forward. <a href="/hpbt/jeremiah/7.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a> And they did not hear, and they did not incline their ears to hear, but they went after their counsels and after the desires of their evil heart, and they turned back and not forward<div class="vheading2">OT Translations</div><a href="/jps/jeremiah/7.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a> But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in their own counsels, even in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward and not forward, <a href="/sep/jeremiah/7.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a> But they hearkened not to me, and their ear gave no heed, but they walked in the imaginations of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward; <a href="/parallel/jeremiah/7-24.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv">Audio Bible</div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5k55c51ZGhs?start=2324" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="vheadingv">Context</div><a href="/bsb/jeremiah/7.htm">Judah's Idolatry Persists</a> …23but this is what I commanded them: Obey Me, and I will be your God, and you will be My people. You must walk in all the ways I have commanded you, so that it may go well with you. 24<a href="/hebrew/3808.htm" title="3808: wə·lō (Conj-w:: Adv-NegPrt) -- Not. Or lowi; or loh; a primitive particle; not; by implication, no; often used with other particles.">Yet they did not</a> <a href="/hebrew/8085.htm" title="8085: šā·mə·‘ū (V-Qal-Perf-3cp) -- To hear. A primitive root; to hear intelligently.">listen</a> <a href="/hebrew/3808.htm" title="3808: wə·lō- (Conj-w:: Adv-NegPrt) -- Not. Or lowi; or loh; a primitive particle; not; by implication, no; often used with other particles.">or</a> <a href="/hebrew/5186.htm" title="5186: hiṭ·ṭū (V-Hifil-Perf-3cp) -- A primitive root; to stretch or spread out; by implication, to bend away; used in a great variety of application.">incline</a> <a href="/hebrew/853.htm" title="853: ’eṯ- (DirObjM) -- Apparent contracted from 'owth in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self."></a> <a href="/hebrew/241.htm" title="241: ’ā·zə·nām (N-fsc:: 3mp) -- An ear. From 'azan; broadness. I.e. the ear.">their ear,</a> <a href="/hebrew/1980.htm" title="1980: way·yê·lə·ḵū (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConsecImperf-3mp) -- To go, come, walk. Akin to yalak; a primitive root; to walk.">but they followed</a> <a href="/hebrew/8307.htm" title="8307: biš·ri·rūṯ (Prep-b:: N-fsc) -- Firmness, stubbornness. From sharar in the sense of twisted, i.e. Firm; obstinacy.">the stubborn</a> <a href="/hebrew/4156.htm" title="4156: bə·mō·‘ê·ṣō·wṯ (Prep-b:: N-fp) -- Counsel, plan, principle, device. From ya'ats; a purpose.">inclinations</a> <a href="/hebrew/7451.htm" title="7451: hā·rā‘ (Art:: Adj-ms) -- Bad, evil. From ra'a'; bad or evil.">of their own evil</a> <a href="/hebrew/3820.htm" title="3820: lib·bām (N-msc:: 3mp) -- A form of lebab; the heart; also used very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the centre of anything.">hearts.</a> <a href="/hebrew/1961.htm" title="1961: way·yih·yū (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConsecImperf-3mp) -- To fall out, come to pass, become, be. A primitive root; to exist, i.e. Be or become, come to pass.">They went</a> <a href="/hebrew/268.htm" title="268: lə·’ā·ḥō·wr (Prep-l:: N-ms) -- The hind side, back part. Or achor; from Achiyra'; the hinder part; hence behind, backward; also the West.">backward</a> <a href="/hebrew/3808.htm" title="3808: wə·lō (Conj-w:: Adv-NegPrt) -- Not. Or lowi; or loh; a primitive particle; not; by implication, no; often used with other particles.">and not</a> <a href="/hebrew/6440.htm" title="6440: lə·p̄ā·nîm (Prep-l:: N-mp) -- Face, faces. Plural of an unused noun; the face; used in a great variety of applications; also as a preposition.">forward.</a> 25From the day your fathers came out of the land of Egypt until this day, I have sent you all My servants the prophets again and again.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div> <a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><a href="/deuteronomy/29-19.htm">Deuteronomy 29:19</a> because when such a person hears the words of this oath, he invokes a blessing on himself, saying, ‘I will have peace, even though I walk in the stubbornness of my own heart.’ This will bring disaster on the watered land as well as the dry. <a href="/isaiah/65-2.htm">Isaiah 65:2</a> All day long I have held out My hands to an obstinate people who walk in the wrong path, who follow their own imaginations, <a href="/ezekiel/20-8.htm">Ezekiel 20:8</a> But they rebelled against Me and refused to listen. None of them cast away the abominations before their eyes, and they did not forsake the idols of Egypt. So I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and vent My anger against them in the land of Egypt. <a href="/hosea/4-16.htm">Hosea 4:16</a> For Israel is as obstinate as a stubborn heifer. Can the LORD now shepherd them like lambs in an open meadow? <a href="/zechariah/7-11.htm">Zechariah 7:11-12</a> But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder; they stopped up their ears from hearing. / They made their hearts like flint and would not listen to the law or to the words that the LORD of Hosts had sent by His Spirit through the earlier prophets. Therefore great anger came from the LORD of Hosts. <a href="/psalms/81-11.htm">Psalm 81:11-12</a> But My people would not listen to Me, and Israel would not obey Me. / So I gave them up to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices. <a href="/2_kings/17-14.htm">2 Kings 17:14</a> But they would not listen, and they stiffened their necks like their fathers, who did not believe the LORD their God. <a href="/nehemiah/9-16.htm">Nehemiah 9:16-17</a> But they and our fathers became arrogant and stiff-necked and did not obey Your commandments. / They refused to listen and failed to remember the wonders You performed among them. They stiffened their necks and appointed a leader to return them to their bondage in Egypt. But You are a forgiving God, gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and rich in loving devotion, and You did not forsake them. <a href="/2_chronicles/30-8.htm">2 Chronicles 30:8</a> Now do not stiffen your necks as your fathers did. Submit to the LORD and come to His sanctuary, which He has consecrated forever. Serve the LORD your God, so that His fierce anger will turn away from you. <a href="/isaiah/30-9.htm">Isaiah 30:9-11</a> These are rebellious people, deceitful children, children unwilling to obey the LORD’s instruction. / They say to the seers, “Stop seeing visions!” and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us the truth! Speak to us pleasant words; prophesy illusions. / Get out of the way; turn off the road. Rid us of the Holy One of Israel!” <a href="/acts/7-51.htm">Acts 7:51</a> You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did. <a href="/romans/10-21.htm">Romans 10:21</a> But as for Israel he says: “All day long I have held out My hands to a disobedient and obstinate people.” <a href="/matthew/23-37.htm">Matthew 23:37</a> O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling! <a href="/mark/7-9.htm">Mark 7:9</a> He went on to say, “You neatly set aside the command of God to maintain your own tradition. <a href="/john/5-40.htm">John 5:40</a> yet you refuse to come to Me to have life.</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>But they listened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.they.<a href="/jeremiah/7-26.htm">Jeremiah 7:26</a> Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.<a href="/jeremiah/11-7.htm">Jeremiah 11:7,8</a> For I earnestly protested unto your fathers in the day that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even unto this day, rising early and protesting, saying, Obey my voice… <a href="/exodus/32-7.htm">Exodus 32:7,8</a> And the LORD said unto Moses, Go, get thee down; for thy people, which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves: … walked.<a href="/jeremiah/23-17.htm">Jeremiah 23:17</a> They say still unto them that despise me, The LORD hath said, Ye shall have peace; and they say unto every one that walketh after the imagination of his own heart, No evil shall come upon you.<a href="/deuteronomy/29-19.htm">Deuteronomy 29:19</a> And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:imagination.<a href="/jeremiah/3-17.htm">Jeremiah 3:17</a> At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the LORD; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the LORD, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after the imagination of their evil heart.went.<a href="/jeremiah/7-26.htm">Jeremiah 7:26</a> Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.<a href="/jeremiah/2-27.htm">Jeremiah 2:27</a> Saying to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth: for they have turned their back unto me, and not their face: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.<a href="/jeremiah/8-5.htm">Jeremiah 8:5</a> Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.<div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/jeremiah/6-19.htm">Attention</a> <a href="/isaiah/59-14.htm">Backward</a> <a href="/isaiah/47-13.htm">Counsels</a> <a href="/jeremiah/7-23.htm">Ear</a> <a href="/jeremiah/7-6.htm">Evil</a> <a href="/jeremiah/2-5.htm">Followed</a> <a href="/jeremiah/2-29.htm">Forward</a> <a href="/isaiah/63-14.htm">Guided</a> <a href="/jeremiah/6-19.htm">Hearkened</a> <a href="/jeremiah/5-24.htm">Heart</a> <a href="/jeremiah/5-24.htm">Hearts</a> <a href="/jeremiah/3-17.htm">Imagination</a> <a href="/colossians/3-5.htm">Inclinations</a> <a href="/isaiah/55-3.htm">Incline</a> <a href="/proverbs/5-13.htm">Inclined</a> <a href="/isaiah/61-7.htm">Instead</a> <a href="/jeremiah/6-10.htm">Note</a> <a href="/jeremiah/7-23.htm">Obey</a> <a href="/isaiah/65-6.htm">Pay</a> <a href="/jeremiah/4-2.htm">Pride</a> <a href="/jeremiah/5-23.htm">Stubborn</a> <a href="/jeremiah/3-17.htm">Stubbornness</a> <a href="/jeremiah/6-19.htm">Thoughts</a> <a href="/jeremiah/6-9.htm">Turn</a> <a href="/jeremiah/7-23.htm">Walk</a> <a href="/jeremiah/7-23.htm">Walked</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/jeremiah/7-26.htm">Attention</a> <a href="/jeremiah/15-6.htm">Backward</a> <a href="/hosea/11-6.htm">Counsels</a> <a href="/jeremiah/7-26.htm">Ear</a> <a href="/jeremiah/7-26.htm">Evil</a> <a href="/jeremiah/9-13.htm">Followed</a> <a href="/jeremiah/18-19.htm">Forward</a> <a href="/jeremiah/9-13.htm">Guided</a> <a href="/jeremiah/7-26.htm">Hearkened</a> <a href="/jeremiah/7-28.htm">Heart</a> <a href="/jeremiah/9-14.htm">Hearts</a> <a href="/jeremiah/9-14.htm">Imagination</a> <a href="/ephesians/2-3.htm">Inclinations</a> <a href="/jeremiah/7-26.htm">Incline</a> <a href="/jeremiah/7-26.htm">Inclined</a> <a href="/jeremiah/9-14.htm">Instead</a> <a href="/jeremiah/7-26.htm">Note</a> <a href="/jeremiah/7-28.htm">Obey</a> <a href="/jeremiah/7-26.htm">Pay</a> <a href="/jeremiah/9-14.htm">Pride</a> <a href="/jeremiah/16-12.htm">Stubborn</a> <a href="/jeremiah/9-14.htm">Stubbornness</a> <a href="/jeremiah/11-20.htm">Thoughts</a> <a href="/jeremiah/8-4.htm">Turn</a> <a href="/jeremiah/9-4.htm">Walk</a> <a href="/jeremiah/8-2.htm">Walked</a><div class="vheading2">Jeremiah 7</div>1. <a href="/jeremiah/7-1.htm">Jeremiah is sent to call to true repentance, to prevent the Jews' captivity.</a> 8. <a href="/jeremiah/7-8.htm">He rejects their vain confidence,</a> 12. <a href="/jeremiah/7-12.htm">by the example of Shiloh.</a> 17. <a href="/jeremiah/7-17.htm">He threatens them for their idolatry.</a> 21. <a href="/jeremiah/7-21.htm">He rejects the sacrifices of the disobedient.</a> 29. <a href="/jeremiah/7-29.htm">He exhorts to mourn for their abominations in Tophet;</a> 32. <a href="/jeremiah/7-32.htm">and the judgments for the same.</a> </div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/jeremiah/7.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/jeremiah/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/jeremiah/7.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div>Yet they did not listen or incline their ear This phrase highlights the persistent disobedience of the Israelites. Throughout the Old Testament, God repeatedly called His people to listen to His commandments and follow His ways (<a href="/deuteronomy/6-4.htm">Deuteronomy 6:4-5</a>). The act of inclining the ear is a metaphor for being attentive and obedient. The Israelites' failure to listen is a recurring theme, as seen in the warnings of the prophets like Isaiah (<a href="/isaiah/6-9.htm">Isaiah 6:9-10</a>) and Ezekiel (<a href="/ezekiel/12-2.htm">Ezekiel 12:2</a>). This disobedience is not just a failure to hear but a willful rejection of God's guidance.but they followed the stubborn inclinations of their own evil hearts The "stubborn inclinations" refer to the Israelites' persistent rebellion against God. The heart, in biblical terms, is the center of will and decision-making. Jeremiah often speaks of the deceitfulness and wickedness of the human heart (<a href="/jeremiah/17-9.htm">Jeremiah 17:9</a>). This phrase underscores the inherent sinfulness and tendency of humanity to choose its own path over God's. The stubbornness is akin to the hardening of Pharaoh's heart in Exodus, illustrating a deliberate choice to resist God's will.They went backward and not forward This imagery of moving backward rather than forward signifies regression in spiritual and moral terms. Instead of progressing in their relationship with God and growing in righteousness, the Israelites were reverting to their sinful ways. This backward movement is symbolic of a return to idolatry and disobedience, reminiscent of the Israelites' frequent lapses into idol worship (<a href="/judges/2-11.htm">Judges 2:11-19</a>). The call to move forward is a call to spiritual growth and maturity, as seen in the New Testament exhortations to press on toward the goal (<a href="/philippians/3-13.htm">Philippians 3:13-14</a>). This regression is a stark contrast to the forward movement God desires for His people, which is ultimately fulfilled in the redemptive work of Jesus Christ, who leads believers into a new covenant relationship with God.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <a href="/topical/j/jeremiah.htm">Jeremiah</a> A prophet called by God to deliver messages of warning and hope to the people of Judah. His ministry was marked by a call to repentance and a warning of impending judgment due to the people's disobedience. 2. <a href="/topical/j/judah.htm">Judah</a> The southern kingdom of Israel, which was facing imminent judgment due to its persistent idolatry and rebellion against God. 3. <a href="/topical/t/the_people_of_judah.htm">The People of Judah</a> The audience of Jeremiah's message, characterized by their refusal to listen to God's commands and their persistence in following their own evil inclinations. 4. <a href="/topical/t/the_temple_sermon.htm">The Temple Sermon</a> Jeremiah 7 is part of a larger discourse often referred to as the "Temple Sermon," where Jeremiah stands at the gate of the Lord's house and calls the people to amend their ways. 5. <a href="/topical/g/god's_covenant.htm">God's Covenant</a> The covenant relationship between God and Israel, which the people of Judah were violating through their disobedience and idolatry.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><a href="/topical/t/the_danger_of_stubbornness.htm">The Danger of Stubbornness</a> Stubbornness in spiritual matters leads to regression rather than progress. Just as the people of Judah went "backward and not forward," so too can we if we refuse to heed God's voice. <a href="/topical/l/listening_to_god.htm">Listening to God</a> True spiritual growth requires an attentive ear to God's Word. The failure to "listen or incline their ear" serves as a warning to prioritize God's voice over our own desires. <a href="/topical/t/the_consequences_of_disobedience.htm">The Consequences of Disobedience</a> Disobedience to God's commands results in spiritual decline. The people of Judah's choice to follow "the counsels and the stubbornness of their evil hearts" led them away from God's blessings. <a href="/topical/t/the_call_to_repentance.htm">The Call to Repentance</a> God continually calls His people to repentance. Jeremiah's message is a reminder that it is never too late to turn back to God and seek His forgiveness and guidance. <a href="/topical/t/the_importance_of_heart_transformation.htm">The Importance of Heart Transformation</a> A transformed heart is essential for a faithful walk with God. The stubbornness of the heart must be replaced with a willingness to follow God's ways.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_jeremiah_7.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Jeremiah 7</a> <a href="/q/what_is_a_seared_conscience.htm">What does having a seared conscience mean?</a> <a href="/q/does_god's_judgment_on_'bad_figs'_conflict.htm">Jeremiah 24:8 - Does God's severe judgment on the 'bad figs' conflict with the idea of a just and loving deity who offers redemption to all?</a> <a href="/q/jeremiah_24_7__why_did_exiles_disobey.htm">Jeremiah 24:7 - How do we reconcile God giving the exiles 'a heart to know me' with subsequent biblical texts describing their continued disobedience?</a> <a href="/q/does_jer._16_10-12_contradict_deut._24_16.htm">Jeremiah 16:10-12 implies children are punished for ancestors' sins--does this contradict Deuteronomy 24:16, where each person is held responsible only for their own sin?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/jeremiah/7.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(24) Imagination.--Better, stubbornness, as in <a href="/jeremiah/3-17.htm" title="At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the LORD; and all the nations shall be gathered to it, to the name of the LORD, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after the imagination of their evil heart.">Jeremiah 3:17</a>.Went backward and not forward.--The whole sacrificial system, even at its best, to say nothing of its idolatrous corruptions, was accordingly, from Jeremiah's point of view, a retrograde movement. The apostasy of the people in the worship of the golden calf involved a like deflection, necessary and inevitable though it might be as a process of education, from the first ideal polity, based upon the covenant made with Abraham, i.e., upon a pure and spiritual theism, the emblems and ordinances of which, though "shadows of good things to come," were in themselves "weak and beggarly elements" (<a href="/hebrews/10-1.htm" title="For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.">Hebrews 10:1</a>; <a href="/galatians/4-9.htm" title="But now, after that you have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn you again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto you desire again to be in bondage?">Galatians 4:9</a>).<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/jeremiah/7.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div>Verse 24. - Imagination; rather, stubbornness (see on Jeremiah 3:17). Went backward, and not forward; rather, turned their back, and not their face (literally, became backwards, and not forwards). <a href="/commentaries/jeremiah/7-24.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div>Yet they did not וְלֹ֤א (wə·lō) Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3808.htm">Strong's 3808: </a> Not, no listen שָֽׁמְעוּ֙ (šā·mə·‘ū) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_8085.htm">Strong's 8085: </a> To hear intelligently or pay attention, הִטּ֣וּ (hiṭ·ṭū) Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person common plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5186.htm">Strong's 5186: </a> To stretch out, spread out, extend, incline, bend but they followed וַיֵּֽלְכוּ֙ (way·yê·lə·ḵū) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1980.htm">Strong's 1980: </a> To go, come, walk the stubborn בִּשְׁרִר֖וּת (biš·ri·rūṯ) Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_8307.htm">Strong's 8307: </a> Firmness, stubbornness inclinations בְּמֹ֣עֵצ֔וֹת (bə·mō·‘ê·ṣō·wṯ) Preposition-b | Noun - feminine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_4156.htm">Strong's 4156: </a> Counsel, plan, principle, device of their own evil הָרָ֑ע (hā·rā‘) Article | Adjective - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7451.htm">Strong's 7451: </a> Bad, evil hearts. לִבָּ֣ם (lib·bām) Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3820.htm">Strong's 3820: </a> The heart, the feelings, the will, the intellect, centre They went וַיִּהְי֥וּ (way·yih·yū) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1961.htm">Strong's 1961: </a> To fall out, come to pass, become, be backward לְאָח֖וֹר (lə·’ā·ḥō·wr) Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_268.htm">Strong's 268: </a> The hinder part, behind, backward, the West and not forward. וְלֹֽא־ (wə·lō-) Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3808.htm">Strong's 3808: </a> Not, no <div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/jeremiah/7-24.htm">Jeremiah 7:24 NIV</a> <a href="/nlt/jeremiah/7-24.htm">Jeremiah 7:24 NLT</a> <a href="/esv/jeremiah/7-24.htm">Jeremiah 7:24 ESV</a> <a href="/nasb/jeremiah/7-24.htm">Jeremiah 7:24 NASB</a> <a href="/kjv/jeremiah/7-24.htm">Jeremiah 7:24 KJV</a> <a href="//bibleapps.com/jeremiah/7-24.htm">Jeremiah 7:24 BibleApps.com</a> <a href="//bibliaparalela.com/jeremiah/7-24.htm">Jeremiah 7:24 Biblia Paralela</a> <a href="//holybible.com.cn/jeremiah/7-24.htm">Jeremiah 7:24 Chinese Bible</a> <a href="//saintebible.com/jeremiah/7-24.htm">Jeremiah 7:24 French Bible</a> <a href="/catholic/jeremiah/7-24.htm">Jeremiah 7:24 Catholic Bible</a> <a href="/jeremiah/7-24.htm">OT Prophets: Jeremiah 7:24 But they didn't listen nor turn their (Jer.) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/jeremiah/7-23.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Jeremiah 7:23"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Jeremiah 7:23" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/jeremiah/7-25.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Jeremiah 7:25"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Jeremiah 7:25" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>