TSK · Jeremiah 42:21

and it happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, "I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to destroy the moist with the dry."

I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse: therefore choose life, that you may live, you and your seed;

But they didn't listen nor turn their ear, but walked in [their own] counsels [and] in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.

You shall speak my words to them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear; for they are most rebellious.

They come to you as the people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don't do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.

But they refused to listen, and turned their backs, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear.

how I didn't shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house,