Jeremiah 9:13

And YHWH says: “Because of their forsaking My law that I set before them, || And they have not listened to My voice nor walked in it,

Literal Standard Version

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? And he understands this, || And he to whom the mouth of YHWH spoke? And he declares it, || For why has the land perished? It has been burned up as a wilderness, || Without any passing through.

14And they walk after the stubbornness of their heart, || And after the Ba‘alim, || That their fathers taught them,”

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 7:19and if you turn back—you—and have forsaken My statutes and My commands that I have placed before you, and have gone and served other gods, and bowed yourselves to them—then I have plucked them from off My ground that I have given to them,

Psalms 89:30If his sons forsake My law, || And do not walk in My judgments;

Proverbs 28:4Those forsaking the Law praise the wicked, || Those keeping the Law plead against them.

Jeremiah 13:10This evil people, who refuse to hear My words, || Who walk in the stubbornness of their heart, || And go after other gods to serve them, || And to bow themselves to them, || Indeed it is—as this girdle, that is not profitable for anything.

Zephaniah 3:1Woe [to] the rebelling and defiling, || The oppressing city!

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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