Jeremiah 9:14

but went after the lusts of their evil heart, and after the idols which their fathers taught them to worship:

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:

In Context

13And the Lord said to me, Because they have forsaken my law, which I set before them, and have not listened to my voice;

15therefore thus says the Lord God of Israel, Behold, I will feed them with trouble and will cause them to drink water of gall:

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Cross References

Job 9:18For he suffers me not to take breath, but he has filled me with bitterness.

Jeremiah 2:23How will you say, I am not polluted, and have not gone after Baal? behold your ways in the burial-ground, and know what you have done: her voice has howled in the evening:

Jeremiah 7:24But they listened not to me, and their ear gave no heed, but they walked in the imaginations of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward;

Jeremiah 23:15Therefore thus says the Lord; Behold, I will feed them with pain, and give them bitter water to drink: for from the prophets of Jerusalem has defilement gone forth into all the land.

Lamentations 3:15VAU. He has filled me with bitterness, he has drenched me with gall.

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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