2 Chronicles 36:15

15The Lord, the God of their fathers, asent persistently to them by his messengers, because he had compassion on his people and on his dwelling place.

Jeremiah 7:13

13And now, because you have done all these things, declares the Lord, and bwhen I spoke to you persistently you did not listen, and cwhen I called you, you did not answer,
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