16 As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of the Lord, we will not hearken unto thee.
16 "We will not listen to the message you have spoken to us in the name of the Lord!
16 "As for the word that you have spoken to us in the name of the Lord, we will not listen to you.
16 "We're having nothing to do with what you tell us is God's Message.
16 "As for the word that you have spoken to us in the name of the Lord, we will not listen to you!
16 "We will not listen to your messages from the Lord !
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Jeremiah 44:16
Commentary on Jeremiah 44:15-19
(Read Jeremiah 44:15-19)
These daring sinners do not attempt excuses, but declare they will do that which is forbidden. Those who disobey God, commonly grow worse and worse, and the heart is more hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. Here is the real language of the rebellious heart. Even the afflictions which should have parted them from their sins, were taken so as to confirm them in their sins. It is sad when those who should quicken each other to what is good, and so help one another to heaven, harden each other in sin, and so ripen one another for hell. To mingle idolatry with Divine worship, and to reject the mediation of Christ, are provoking to God, and ruinous to men. All who worship images, or honour saints, and angels, and the queen of heaven, should recollect what came from the idolatrous practices of the Jews.