Jer 32:33 | NETfull | STEP | They have turned away from me instead of turning to me. I tried over and over again to instruct them, but they did not listen and respond to correction.

Jeremiah 32:33

33 They have turned away from me instead of turning to me. ^{▼▼ Heb “they have turned [their] backs to me, not [their] faces.” Compare the same idiom in 2:27.} I tried over and over again ^{▼▼ For the idiom involved here see the translator’s note on 7:13. The verb that introduces this clause is a Piel infinitive absolute which is functioning in place of the finite verb (see, e.g., GKC 346 #113.ff and compare usage in Jer 8:15; 14:19. This grammatical point means that the versions cited in BHS fn a may not be reading a different text after all, but may merely be interpreting the form as syntactically equivalent to a finite verb as the present translation has done.).} ^{▼▼ This refers to God teaching them through the prophets whom he has sent as indicated by the repeated use of this idiom elsewhere in 7:13, 25; 11:7; 25:3, 4; 26:5, 19.} to instruct them, but they did not listen and respond to correction. ^{▼▼ Heb “But they were not listening so as to accept correction.”}