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Jeremiah Chapter 7 verse 24 Holy Bible

ASV Jeremiah 7:24

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.
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BBE Jeremiah 7:24

But they took no note and did not give ear, but were guided by the thoughts and the pride of their evil hearts, going back and not forward.
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DARBY Jeremiah 7:24

But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels, in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward and not forward.
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KJV Jeremiah 7:24

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.
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WBT Jeremiah 7:24

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WEB Jeremiah 7:24

But they didn't 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.
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YLT Jeremiah 7:24

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.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 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).

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(24) Imagination.--Better, stubbornness, as in Jeremiah 3:17.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" (Hebrews 10:1; Galatians 4:9).