Jeremiah 18:15

For my people have forgotten me, they have offered incense in vain, and they fail in their ways, leaving the ancient tracks, to enter upon impassable paths;

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

Because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not cast up;

In Context

14Will fertilizing streams fail to flow from a rock, or snow fail from Lebanon? will water violently impelled by the wind turn aside?

16to make their land a desolation, and a perpetual hissing; all that go through it shall be amazed, and shall shake their heads.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:21They have provoked me to jealousy with that which is not God, 1 They have exasperated me with their idols; 1 And I will provoke them to jealousy with them that are no nation, 1 I will anger them with a nation void of understanding. 1

Isaiah 3:12O my people, your exactors strip you, and extortioners rule over you: O my people, they that pronounce you blessed lead you astray, and pervert the path of your feet.

Isaiah 41:29For these are your makers, as ye think, and they that cause you to err in vain.

Isaiah 62:10Go through my gates, and make a way for my people; and cast the stones out of the way; lift up a standard for the Gentiles.

Jeremiah 1:16And I will speak to them in judgment, concerning all their iniquity, forasmuch as they have forsaken me, and sacrificed to strange gods, and worshiped the works of their own hands.

Jeremiah 2:19Thine apostasy shall correct thee, and thy wickedness shall reprove thee: know then, and see, that thy forsaking me has been bitter to thee, saith the Lord thy God; and I have taken no pleasure in thee, saith the Lord thy God.

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 18:12-18

People of God Accused and Threatened; Folly of Idolatry. ( b. c. 600.) 11 Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the Lord ; Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: return ye now every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good. 12 And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart. 13 Therefore thus saith the Lord ; Ask ye… Read the whole commentary →

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