Jeremiah 9:13

And the Lord said: Because they have forsaken my law, which I gave them, and have not heard my voice, and have not walked in it.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

And the LORD saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein;

In Context

12Who is the wise man, that may understand this, and to whom the word of the mouth of the Lord may come that he may declare this, why the land hath perished, and is burnt up like a wilderness, which none passeth through?

14But they have gone after the perverseness of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them.

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 7:19But if you turn away, and forsake my justices, and my commandments which I have set before you, and shall go and serve strange gods, and adore them,

Psalms 89:30And I will make his seed to endure for evermore: and his throne as the days of heaven.

Proverbs 28:4They that forsake the law, praise the wicked man: they that keep it, are incensed against him.

Jeremiah 13:10This wicked people, that will not hear my words, and that walk in the perverseness of their heart, and have gone after strange gods to serve them, and to adore them: and they shall be as this girdle which is fit for no use.

Zephaniah 3:1Woe to the provoking, and redeemed city, the dove.

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 9:13-23

Punishment Predicted. ( b. c. 606.) 12 Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of the Lord hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perisheth and is burned up like a wilderness, that none passeth through? 13 And the Lord saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein; 14 But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them: 15 Therefore… Read the whole commentary →

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