Jeremías 7:24

24 »Pero mi pueblo no quiso escucharme. Continuaron haciendo lo que querían, siguiendo los tercos deseos de su malvado corazón. Retrocedieron en vez de ir hacia adelante.

Jeremías 7:24 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 7:24

But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear
Neither to the law that was given them, nor to the promises that were made unto them, this was the case of the Jewish fathers, and also of their posterity, to whom belonged the law, and the promises, and the service of God: but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart;
what their evil heart imagined, advised and directed to, that they attended to, walked in, and pursued after. The heart of man is evil; it is desperately wicked, even wickedness itself; and so is every thought and every imagination of the thoughts of it and all its counsels, machinations and contrivances; and therefore the consequence of walking in these, or steering the course of life according to them, must be bad: and went backward, and not forward;
they went backwards from the ways of God, and walked not in them. The Targum is,

``they turned the back in my worship, and did not put my fear before their face;''

or else this may design, not their sin, but their punishment, as Kimchi interprets it; they did not prosper, but suffered adversity; a curse, and not a blessing, attended the works of their hands.

Jeremías 7:24 In-Context

22 Cuando saqué a sus antepasados de Egipto no eran ofrendas quemadas ni sacrificios lo que deseaba de ellos.

23 Esto les dije: “Obedézcanme, y yo seré su Dios, y ustedes serán mi pueblo. ¡Hagan todo lo que les diga y les irá bien!”.

24 »Pero mi pueblo no quiso escucharme. Continuaron haciendo lo que querían, siguiendo los tercos deseos de su malvado corazón. Retrocedieron en vez de ir hacia adelante.

25 Desde el día en que sus antepasados salieron de Egipto hasta ahora, no he dejado de enviarles a mis siervos, los profetas, día tras día;

26 pero mi pueblo no me ha escuchado, ni siquiera ha tratado de oírme. Han sido tercos y pecadores, aún peores que sus antepasados.