Jeremiah 42:21
New International Version
I have told you today, but you still have not obeyed the LORD your God in all he sent me to tell you.

New Living Translation
And today I have told you exactly what he said, but you will not obey the LORD your God any better now than you have in the past.

English Standard Version
And I have this day declared it to you, but you have not obeyed the voice of the LORD your God in anything that he sent me to tell you.

Berean Standard Bible
For I have told you today, but you have not obeyed the voice of the LORD your God in all He has sent me to tell you.

King James Bible
And now I have this day declared it to you; but ye have not obeyed the voice of the LORD your God, nor any thing for the which he hath sent me unto you.

New King James Version
And I have this day declared it to you, but you have not obeyed the voice of the LORD your God, or anything which He has sent you by me.

New American Standard Bible
So I have told you today, but you have not obeyed the LORD your God in whatever He has sent me to tell you.

NASB 1995
So I have told you today, but you have not obeyed the LORD your God, even in whatever He has sent me to tell you.

NASB 1977
So, I have told you today, but you have not obeyed the LORD your God, even in whatever He has sent me to tell you.

Legacy Standard Bible
So I have told you today, but you have not listened to the voice of Yahweh your God, even according to all that He has sent me to tell you.

Amplified Bible
And so I have told you today, but you have not listened to the voice of the LORD your God, in anything that He has sent me to tell you.

Christian Standard Bible
For I have told you today, but you have not obeyed the LORD your God in everything he has sent me to tell you.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
For I have told you today, but you have not obeyed the voice of the LORD your God in everything He has sent me to tell you.

American Standard Version
And I have this day declared it to you; but ye have not obeyed the voice of Jehovah your God in anything for which he hath sent me unto you.

Contemporary English Version
because now that I have given you the LORD's answer, you refuse to obey him.

English Revised Version
and I have this day declared it to you; but ye have not obeyed the voice of the LORD your God in any thing for the which he hath sent me unto you.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
I have told you today, but you won't obey anything the LORD your God sent me to tell you.

Good News Translation
And now I have told you, but you are disobeying everything that the LORD our God sent me to tell you.

International Standard Version
I've told you today, but you haven't obeyed the LORD your God in all that he sent me to tell you.

Majority Standard Bible
For I have told you today, but you have not obeyed the voice of the LORD your God in all He has sent me to tell you.

NET Bible
This day I have told you what he said. But you do not want to obey the LORD by doing what he sent me to tell you.

New Heart English Bible
and I have this day declared it to you; but you have not obeyed the voice of the LORD your God in anything for which he has sent me to you.

Webster's Bible Translation
And now I have this day declared it to you; but ye have not obeyed the voice of the LORD your God, nor any thing for which he hath sent me to you.

World English Bible
I have declared it to you today; but you have not obeyed Yahweh your God’s voice in anything for which he has sent me to you.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
and I declare to you today, and you have not listened to the voice of your God YHWH, and to anything with which He has sent me to you.

Young's Literal Translation
and I declare to you to-day, and ye have not hearkened to the voice of Jehovah your God, and to anything with which He hath sent me unto you.

Smith's Literal Translation
And I will announce to you this day; and ye heard not to the voice of Jehovah your God, and to all which he sent me to you.
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
And now I have declared it to you this day, and ;you have not obeyed the voice of the Lord your God, with regard to all the things for which he hath sent me to you.

Catholic Public Domain Version
And I have announced it to you this day, and you have not heeded the voice of the Lord your God, concerning everything about which he has sent me to you.

New American Bible
Today I have told you, but you have not listened to the voice of the LORD your God, in anything that he has sent me to tell you.

New Revised Standard Version
So I have told you today, but you have not obeyed the voice of the LORD your God in anything that he sent me to tell you.
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa Bible
And this day I have declared to you; but you have not obeyed the voice of the LORD your God; anything for which he has sent me to you, you have not done.

Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And I have shown you today, and you have not listened to the voice of LORD JEHOVAH your God, and concerning all that he has sent me to you, you have not done
OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
and I have this day declared it to you; but ye have not hearkened to the voice of the LORD your God in any thing for which He hath sent me unto you.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And ye have not hearkened to the voice of the Lord, with which he sent me to you.
Audio Bible



Context
Warning Against Going to Egypt
20For you have deceived yourselves by sending me to the LORD your God, saying, ‘Pray to the LORD our God on our behalf, and as for all that the LORD our God says, tell it to us and we will do it.’ 21For I have told you today, but you have not obeyed the voice of the LORD your God in all He has sent me to tell you. 22Now therefore, know for sure that by sword and famine and plague you will die in the place where you desire to go to reside.”…

Cross References
Deuteronomy 30:15-20
See, I have set before you today life and prosperity, as well as death and disaster. / For I am commanding you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments, statutes, and ordinances, so that you may live and increase, and the LORD your God may bless you in the land that you are entering to possess. / But if your heart turns away and you do not listen, but are drawn away to bow down to other gods and worship them, ...

Isaiah 30:1-2
“Woe to the rebellious children,” declares the LORD, “to those who carry out a plan that is not Mine, who form an alliance, but against My will, heaping up sin upon sin. / They set out to go down to Egypt without asking My advice, to seek shelter under Pharaoh’s protection and take refuge in Egypt’s shade.

Ezekiel 33:31-32
So My people come to you as usual, sit before you, and hear your words; but they do not put them into practice. Although they express love with their mouths, their hearts pursue dishonest gain. / Indeed, you are to them like a singer of love songs with a beautiful voice, who skillfully plays an instrument. They hear your words but do not put them into practice.

2 Kings 17:13-14
Yet through all His prophets and seers, the LORD warned Israel and Judah, saying, “Turn from your wicked ways and keep My commandments and statutes, according to the entire Law that I commanded your fathers and delivered to you through My servants the prophets.” / But they would not listen, and they stiffened their necks like their fathers, who did not believe the LORD their God.

Zechariah 7:11-13
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. / And just as I had called and they would not listen, so when they called I would not listen, says the LORD of Hosts.

Matthew 7:24-27
Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. / The rain fell, the torrents raged, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because its foundation was on the rock. / But everyone who hears these words of Mine and does not act on them is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. ...

James 1:22-25
Be doers of the word, and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves. / For anyone who hears the word but does not carry it out is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror, / and after observing himself goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. ...

Luke 6:46-49
Why do you call Me ‘Lord, Lord,’ but do not do what I say? / I will show you what he is like who comes to Me and hears My words and acts on them: / He is like a man building a house, who dug down deep and laid his foundation on the rock. When the flood came, the torrent crashed against that house but could not shake it, because it was well built. ...

Hebrews 3:7-11
Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you hear His voice, / do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness, / where your fathers tested and tried Me, and for forty years saw My works. ...

1 Samuel 15:22-23
But Samuel declared: “Does the LORD delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obedience to His voice? Behold, obedience is better than sacrifice, and attentiveness is better than the fat of rams. / For rebellion is like the sin of divination, and arrogance is like the wickedness of idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, He has rejected you as king.”

Proverbs 1:24-31
Because you refused my call, and no one took my outstretched hand, / because you neglected all my counsel, and wanted none of my correction, / in turn I will mock your calamity; I will sneer when terror strikes you, ...

Isaiah 48:17-19
Thus says the LORD your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “I am the LORD your God, who teaches you for your benefit, who directs you in the way you should go. / If only you had paid attention to My commandments, your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like waves of the sea. / Your descendants would have been as countless as the sand, and your offspring as numerous as its grains; their name would never be cut off or eliminated from My presence.”

Acts 28:25-27
They disagreed among themselves and began to leave after Paul had made this final statement: “The Holy Spirit was right when He spoke to your fathers through Isaiah the prophet: / ‘Go to this people and say, “You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.” / For this people’s heart has grown callous; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn, and I would heal them.’

Romans 2:5-8
But because of your hard and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed. / God “will repay each one according to his deeds.” / To those who by perseverance in doing good seek glory, honor, and immortality, He will give eternal life. ...

John 12:47-50
As for anyone who hears My words and does not keep them, I do not judge him. For I have not come to judge the world, but to save the world. / There is a judge for the one who rejects Me and does not receive My words: The word that I have spoken will judge him on the last day. / I have not spoken on My own, but the Father who sent Me has commanded Me what to say and how to say it. ...


Treasury of Scripture

And now I have this day declared it to you; but you have not obeyed the voice of the LORD your God, nor any thing for the which he has sent me to you.

I have

Deuteronomy 11:26,27
Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse; …

Ezekiel 2:7
And thou shalt speak my words unto them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear: for they are most rebellious.

Ezekiel 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.

but

Jeremiah 7:24-27
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…

Deuteronomy 29:19
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:

Zechariah 7:11,12
But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear…

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Jeremiah 42
1. Johanan desires Jeremiah to enquire of God, promising obedience to his will.
7. Jeremiah assures him of safety in Judea;
13. and destruction in Egypt.
19. He reproves their hypocrisy.














But I have told you today
This phrase emphasizes the immediacy and urgency of the prophet's message. The Hebrew root for "told" is "נָגַד" (nagad), which means to declare or make known. Jeremiah is stressing that the message is not from his own imagination but a direct revelation from God. The use of "today" underscores the present moment, highlighting the importance of immediate obedience and the relevance of God's word in the current situation. Historically, this reflects the urgency of the prophetic message during a time of crisis for Judah, as they faced the threat of Babylonian conquest.

and you still have not obeyed
The word "obeyed" comes from the Hebrew "שָׁמַע" (shama), which means to hear or listen with the intent to act. This phrase indicates a failure to respond appropriately to God's command. The use of "still" suggests a persistent pattern of disobedience, reflecting the Israelites' historical struggle with faithfulness to God's covenant. This disobedience is not just a passive failure to act but an active choice to ignore God's guidance, which has been a recurring theme throughout the Old Testament narrative.

the voice of the LORD your God
The "voice" of the LORD is a powerful concept in Hebrew thought, often associated with divine authority and revelation. The Hebrew word "קוֹל" (qol) signifies not just sound but a commanding presence. The phrase "the LORD your God" is a covenantal term, reminding the Israelites of their unique relationship with Yahweh. This relationship is based on mutual commitment, where God promises protection and blessing in return for their obedience and worship. The failure to heed God's voice is a breach of this sacred covenant, with serious spiritual and national consequences.

in all that He sent me to tell you
The phrase "He sent me" underscores Jeremiah's role as a divinely appointed messenger. The Hebrew root "שָׁלַח" (shalach) means to send or dispatch, indicating that Jeremiah's mission is not self-initiated but commissioned by God. This highlights the authority and authenticity of his message. The comprehensive nature of "all that He sent me to tell you" suggests that God's instructions were clear and complete, leaving no room for misunderstanding or selective obedience. Historically, this reflects the critical juncture at which Judah stood, with their future hinging on their response to God's directives through His prophet.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
For I have told
וָאַגִּ֥ד (wā·’ag·giḏ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's 5046: To be conspicuous

you
לָכֶ֖ם (lā·ḵem)
Preposition | second person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew

today,
הַיּ֑וֹם (hay·yō·wm)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3117: A day

but you have not
וְלֹ֣א (wə·lō)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

obeyed
שְׁמַעְתֶּ֗ם (šə·ma‘·tem)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's 8085: To hear intelligently

the voice
בְּקוֹל֙ (bə·qō·wl)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 6963: A voice, sound

of the LORD
יְהוָ֣ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

your God
אֱלֹֽהֵיכֶ֔ם (’ĕ·lō·hê·ḵem)
Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine plural
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative

in all
וּלְכֹ֖ל (ū·lə·ḵōl)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

He has sent me
שְׁלָחַ֥נִי (šə·lā·ḥa·nî)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular | first person common singular
Strong's 7971: To send away, for, out

to tell you.
אֲלֵיכֶֽם׃ (’ă·lê·ḵem)
Preposition | second person masculine plural
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to


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