“And now, because ye have done all these works, saith the Lord, and I spake unto you, rising up early and speaking, but ye heard not; and I called you, but ye answered not;”
The pattern of rejection: 'While you were doing all these things, declares the LORD, I spoke to you again and again, but you did not listen; I called you, but you did not answer.' This verse emphasizes God's patient attempts at communication: He 'spoke...again and again,' 'called you,' yet the people 'did not listen,' 'did not answer.' The repetition indicates a long history of divine initiative meeting human resistance. Theologically, this verse establishes that the coming judgment is not arbitrary but is the culmination of a long period of rejected warning.
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