While you were feeling secure I gave you warning. ¹  But you said, “I refuse to listen to you.” That is the way you have acted from your earliest history onward. ²  Indeed, you have never paid attention to me.

I will say, ¹  ‘My dear children of Israel, ²  keep in mind the road you took when you were carried off. ³  Mark off in your minds the landmarks. Make a mental note of telltale signs marking the way back. Return, my dear children of Israel. Return to these cities of yours.

O Lord, hear! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, pay attention, and act! Don’t delay, for your own sake, O my God! For your city and your people are called by your name.” ¹ 

He will not respect ¹  the gods of his fathers – not even the god loved by women. ²  He will not respect any god; he will elevate himself above them all.

Listen to this, you elders; ¹  pay attention, ²  all inhabitants of the land. Has anything like this ever happened in your whole life ³  or in the lifetime ⁴  of your ancestors? ⁵ 

So listen carefully, ¹  for whoever has will be given more, but ²  whoever does not have, even what he thinks he has ³  will be taken from him.”

Watch out for ¹  yourselves and for all the flock of which ²  the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, ³  to shepherd the church of God ⁴  that he obtained ⁵  with the blood of his own Son. ⁶ 

Then God took note of ¹  Rachel. He paid attention to her and enabled her to become pregnant. ² 

And Pharaoh turned and went into his house. He did not pay any attention to this. ¹ 

Balaam ¹  uttered ²  his oracle, and said, “Rise up, ³  Balak, and hear; Listen to me, son of Zippor:

Listen, Israel: The Lord is our God, the Lord is one! ¹ 

Listen, O heavens, and I will speak; hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.

Joshua told the Israelites, “Come here and listen to the words of the Lord your God!”

You who ride on light-colored female donkeys, who sit on saddle blankets, ¹  you who walk on the road, pay attention!

So the Israelites ¹  removed the Baals and images of Ashtoreth. They served only the Lord.

“So now, take your positions and watch this great thing that the Lord is about to do in your sight.

But he refused to listen to her. ¹  He overpowered her and humiliated her by raping her. ² 

The king responded to the people harshly. He rejected the advice of the older men

Now you say, ‘Go and say to your master, “Elijah is back,”’ ¹  but he will kill me.”

All the leaders and people said to him, “Do not give in or agree to his demands.” ¹