Jeremiah 9:13

Yahweh says, “It is because they have abandoned my law that I set before them, because they do not listen to my voice or walk by it.

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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

12What man is wise enough to understand this? To whom has the mouth of Yahweh spoken, and he will declare it? 1 Why has the land perished and been destroyed like the wilderness that no one can pass through?

14It is because they have walked by their stubborn hearts and have followed the Baals as their fathers taught them to do.

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 7:19But if you turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments that I have placed before you, and if you go worship other gods and bow down to them,

Psalms 89:30If his children forsake my law 1 and do not walk in my regulations, 1

Proverbs 28:4Those who forsake the law praise wicked people, 1 but those who keep the law fight against them. 1

Jeremiah 13:10This wicked people who refuses to listen to my word, who walk in the hardness of their heart, who go after other gods to worship them and bow down to them—they will be like this undergarment that is good for nothing.

Zephaniah 3:1Woe to the rebellious city! The violent city is defiled. 1

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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