Jeremiah 42:5-6
42:5 They answered Jeremiah, “May the
Lord be a true and faithful witness against us if we do not do just as
the
Lord sends you to tell us to do.
42:6 We will obey what the
Lord our God to whom we are sending you tells us to do. It does not matter whether we like what he tells us or not. We will obey what he tells us to do so that things will go well for us.”
Jeremiah 44:5
44:5 But the people of Jerusalem and Judah
would not listen or pay any attention. They would not stop the wickedness they were doing nor quit sacrificing to other gods.
Jeremiah 44:2
44:2 “The
Lord God of Israel who rules over all
says, ‘You have seen all the disaster I brought on Jerusalem
and all the towns of Judah. Indeed, they now lie in ruins and are deserted.
Jeremiah 25:16
25:16 When they have drunk it, they will stagger to and fro
and act insane. For I will send wars sweeping through them.”
Ecclesiastes 9:16
9:16 So I concluded that wisdom is better than might,
but a poor man’s wisdom is despised; no one ever listens to his advice.