Hear ye, and give ear,.... Both to what goes before, and what follows after. The words doubled denote the closest and strictest attention:be not proud; haughty, scornful, as above all instruction, and needing no advice and counsel, self-conceited, despising the word of God, and his messages by his prophets; or, "do not lift up yourselves" ; above others, and against God:for the Lord hath spoken; it is not I, but the Lord; and what he has said shall certainly come to pass; so the Targum,"for in the word of the Lord it is so decreed;''it is in vain to oppose him; his counsel shall stand, and he will do all his pleasure; none ever hardened themselves against him, and prospered.
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Jeremiah 13:15
Jeremiah 13:15
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