Jeremiah 9:13

The Lord replied, It's because they have given up keeping my laws that I placed before them. They haven't followed them; they haven't done what I told them.

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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 wise enough to understand this? Has the Lord told anyone so they can explain what's happened? Why has the land been destroyed and burned so it's like a desert, so no one can pass through it?

14On the contrary, they have followed their own stubborn way of thinking, and went to worship the Baals, just as their forefathers taught them.

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 7:19But if you turn away and ignore the laws and the commandments I have given you, and if you go and serve and worship other gods,

Psalms 89:30But if his descendants abandon my laws, if they do not follow my rules,

Proverbs 28:4People who reject the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law fight against them.

Jeremiah 13:10These evil people refuse to listen to what I tell them. They follow their own stubborn and evil thinking and run off to worship other gods—they will be like this loincloth, completely useless.

Zephaniah 3:1What disaster is coming to corrupted, rebellious Jerusalem, you who oppress people!

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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