They have turned away from me instead of turning to me. ¹  I tried over and over again ²  to instruct them, but they did not listen and respond to correction. ³ 

biblegateway Jer 32:33

"They have turned their back to Me and not their face; though I taught them, teaching again and again, they would not listen and receive instruction.

They have turned their backs to Me and not their faces. Though I taught them time and time again, they do not listen and receive discipline.

have turned their backs, not their faces to me. I taught them again and again, but they refused to listen and learn.

biblegateway Jer 32:33

They turned their backs to me and not their faces; though I taught them again and again, they would not listen or respond to discipline.

They have turned to me their back and not their face. And though I have taught them persistently, they have not listened to receive instruction.

bibleoremus Jer 32:33

They have turned their backs to me, not their faces; though I have taught them persistently, they would not listen and accept correction.

They have turned their backs on me and averted their faces; though I taught them again and again, they would not hear or learn their lesson.

biblegateway Jer 32:33

‘And they have turned to Me the back, and not the face; though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them , yet they have not listened to receive instruction.

And they have turned unto me the back, and not the face: though I taught them, rising up early and teaching [them], yet they have not hearkened to receive instruction.

biblegateway Jer 32:33

They have turned away from me instead of turning to me. ¹  I tried over and over again ²  to instruct them, but they did not listen and respond to correction. ³ 

¹ tn Heb “they have turned [their] backs to me, not [their] faces.” Compare the same idiom in 2:27.

² tn 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.).

² sn 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.

³ tn Heb “But they were not listening so as to accept correction.”