Jeremiah 7:26 (LSB)

Passage

Yet they did not listen to Me or incline their ear, but stiffened their neck; they did more evil than their fathers.

Nearby Context

Jeremiah 7:24 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.

Jeremiah 7:25 Since the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt until this day, I have sent you all My slaves the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them.

Jeremiah 7:26 Yet they did not listen to Me or incline their ear, but stiffened their neck; they did more evil than their fathers.

Jeremiah 7:27 “You shall speak all these words to them, but they will not listen to you; and you shall call to them, but they will not answer you.

Jeremiah 7:28 You shall say to them, ‘This is the nation that did not listen to the voice of Yahweh their God or receive discipline; truth has perished and has been cut off from their mouth.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "listen", "incline", "stiffened", "neck", "evil", "than", and "fathers". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "listen" and "incline", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 25's "Since the day that your fathers came..." into verse 27's "You shall speak all these words to...", so "listen" and "incline" belong inside that flow. In Jeremiah context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "listen" and "incline" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.