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Jeremiah 6:17

Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken.

KJV

Et constitui super vos speculatores : Audite vocem tubæ. Et dixerunt : Non audiemus.

Vulgate

καθέστακα ἐφ’ ὑμᾶς σκοπούς, ἀκούσατε τῆς φωνῆς τῆς σάλπιγγος· καὶ εἶπαν Οὐκ ἀκουσόμεθα.

LXX

And I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet; but they said, We will not hearken.

ASV

וַ/הֲקִמֹתִ֤י עֲלֵי/כֶם֙ צֹפִ֔ים הַקְשִׁ֖יבוּ לְ/ק֣וֹל שׁוֹפָ֑ר וַ/יֹּאמְר֖וּ לֹ֥א נַקְשִֽׁיב

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

8 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

ה
h
verb · 46×
יָּ֣קָם
yqm
verb · 626×
יֹּ֣אמֶר
y'mr
verb · 5290×
לֹ֣א
l'
proper_noun · 5171×
עַל
'l
noun · 5732×
צֹּפֶה֙
tsph
verb · 37×
ק֣וֹל
qvl
noun · 503×
שּׁוֹפָ֔ר
shvpr
noun · 72×

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

The prophets were sent from one and the same Father from whom the Son was sent. 1. Which [God] the Lord does not reject, nor does He say that the prophets [spoke] from another god than His Father; nor from any other essence, but from one and the same Father; nor that any other being made the things in the world, except His own Father, when He speaks as follows in His teaching: …

Cross-references

  • Acts 20:27 — For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.
  • Amos 3:6 — Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it?
  • Ezek 3:17 — Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.
  • Ezek 3:17 — Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.
  • Ezek 33:2 — Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them, When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man of their coasts, and set him for their watchman:
  • Ezek 33:4 — Then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh not warning; if the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head.
  • Hab 2:1 — I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved.
  • Heb 13:17 — Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable
  • Hos 8:1 — Set the trumpet to thy mouth. He shall come as an eagle against the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law.
  • Isa 21:11 — The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?
  • Isa 52:8 — Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall they sing: for they shall see eye to eye, when the LORD shall bring again Zion.
  • Isa 56:10 — His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.
  • Isa 58:1 — Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.
  • Isa 62:6 — I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the LORD, keep not silence,
  • Jer 25:4 — And the LORD hath sent unto you all his servants the prophets, rising early and sending them; but ye have not hearkened, nor inclined your ear to hear.
  • Num 10:9 — And if ye go to war in your land against the enemy that oppresseth you, then ye shall blow an alarm with the trumpets; and ye shall be remembered before the LORD your God, and ye shall be saved from y
  • Zech 7:11 — But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.