Thus said the LORD, Stand you in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and you shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein. Treasury of Scripture Stand. Jeremiah 18:15 Because my people has forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity... Deuteronomy 32:7 Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask your father, and he will show you; your elders... Songs 1:7,8 Tell me, O you whom my soul loves, where you feed, where you make your flock to rest at noon... Isaiah 8:20 To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them. Malachi 4:4 Remember you the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded to him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments. Luke 16:29 Abraham said to him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them. John 5:39 Search the scriptures; for in them you think you have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me. John 5:46,47 For had you believed Moses, you would have believed me; for he wrote of me... Acts 17:11 These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind... Romans 4:1-6,12 What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, has found... Hebrews 6:12 That you be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises. Hebrews 11:2 For by it the elders obtained a good report. Hebrews 12:1 Why seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight... and walk. Jeremiah 7:23 But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people... Isaiah 2:5 O house of Jacob, come you, and let us walk in the light of the LORD. Isaiah 30:21 And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, This is the way, walk you in it, when you turn to the right hand... John 12:35 Then Jesus said to them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness come on you... John 13:17 If you know these things, happy are you if you do them. Colossians 2:6 As you have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk you in him: ye shall. Isaiah 28:12 To whom he said, This is the rest with which you may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear. Matthew 11:28,29 Come to me, all you that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest... We will. Jeremiah 2:25 Withhold your foot from being unshod, and your throat from thirst: but you said, There is no hope: no; for I have loved strangers... Jeremiah 18:12 And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart. Jeremiah 22:21 I spoke to you in your prosperity; but you said, I will not hear. This has been your manner from your youth... Jeremiah 44:16 As for the word that you have spoken to us in the name of the LORD, we will not listen to you. Matthew 21:28-32 But what think you? A certain man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go work to day in my vineyard...
Context Israel's Rebellion and God's Wrath
10To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot listen: behold, the word of the LORD is to them a reproach; they have no delight in it. 11Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD; I am weary with holding in: I will pour it out on the children abroad, and on the assembly of young men together: for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him that is full of days. 12And their houses shall be turned to others, with their fields and wives together: for I will stretch out my hand on the inhabitants of the land, said the LORD. 13For from the least of them even to the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even to the priest every one deals falsely. 14They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace. 15Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? no, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall: at the time that I visit them they shall be cast down, said the LORD. 16Thus said the LORD, Stand you in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and you shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein. 17Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Listen to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not listen. 18Therefore hear, you nations, and know, O congregation, what is among them. 19Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil on this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not listened to my words, nor to my law, but rejected it. 20To what purpose comes there to me incense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet to me. 21Therefore thus said the LORD, Behold, I will lay stumbling blocks before this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall fall on them; the neighbor and his friend shall perish. Parallel Verses American Standard Version
Thus saith Jehovah, Stand ye in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way; and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls: but they said, We will not walk therein .
Douay-Rheims Bible
Thus saith the Lord: Stand ye on the ways, and see and ask for the old paths which is the good way, and walk ye in it: and you shall find refreshment for your souls. And they said: we will not walk.
Darby Bible Translation
Thus saith Jehovah: Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the ancient paths, which is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.
King James Bible
Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.
Young's Literal Translation
Thus said Jehovah: Stand ye by the ways and see, and ask for paths of old, Where is this -- the good way? and go ye in it, And find rest for yourselves. And they say, 'We do not go.'
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