The account of the people's mockery and rejection of the prophets, their disregard for God's words, and their scoffing at His messengers represents the culmination of spiritual resistance that made judgment inevitable. The specific forms of rejection - mocking, despising, scoffing - indicate deliberate, willful opposition to God's voice rather than passive indifference. The progression from prophetic warning to popular mockery suggests that the community's consciousness had fundamentally turned away from covenant consciousness, making repentance psychologically unlikely. This verse portrays the community as having reached a point where the word of God was no longer received but actively rejected.

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