Parallel Verses
Amplified
The Lord said, “Because they have
New American Standard Bible
The Lord said, “Because they have
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;
Holman Bible
The Lord said, “It is because they abandoned My instruction
International Standard Version
The LORD said, "It is because they have forsaken my Law that I gave them. They didn't obey me and didn't live according to it.
A Conservative Version
And LORD says, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, nor walked in it,
American Standard Version
And Jehovah saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein,
Bible in Basic English
And the Lord said, Because they have given up my law which I put before them, giving no attention to my voice and not being guided by it;
Darby Translation
And Jehovah saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not hearkened unto my voice, nor walked in it,
Julia Smith Translation
And Jehovah will say, For their forsaking my law which I gave before their face, and they heard not to my voice, and they went not in it.
King James 2000
And the LORD says, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked in it;
Lexham Expanded Bible
And Yahweh said, "Because of their forsaking my law that I set {before} them, and they have not obeyed my voice, and have not walked in it,
Modern King James verseion
And Jehovah says, Because they have forsaken My Law which I set before them, and have not obeyed My voice, and have not walked in it,
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Yea the LORD himself told the same unto them, that forsook his law, and kept not the thing that he gave them in commandment, neither lived thereafter:
NET Bible
The Lord answered, "This has happened because these people have rejected my laws which I gave them. They have not obeyed me or followed those laws.
New Heart English Bible
The LORD says, "Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein,
The Emphasized Bible
Then said Yahweh, - Because they have forsaken my law, which I set before them, - And have not hearkened to hay voice neither walked therein;
Webster
And the LORD saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein;
World English Bible
Yahweh says, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein,
Youngs Literal Translation
And Jehovah saith: Because of their forsaking My law that I set before them, And they have not hearkened to My voice nor walked in it,
Themes
Disobedience to God » Bitter results of, illustrated
Forsaking » The reward for forsaking the law
Heart » The reward for walking after the imagination of your own heart
Interlinear
`azab
Nathan
Paniym
Shama`
Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 9:13
Verse Info
Context Readings
Judah's Failures
12
Who is the wise man who may understand this [without any doubt]? To whom has the mouth of the Lord spoken, so that he may declare it? Why is the land ruined, laid waste like a wilderness, so that no one passes through?
13 The Lord said, “Because they have
Cross References
2 Chronicles 7:19
“But if you [people] turn away and abandon My statutes and My commandments which I have set before you, and you go and serve other gods and worship them,
Jeremiah 22:9
Then they will answer, ‘Because the people ignored and abandoned the [solemn] covenant with the Lord their God and worshiped other gods and served them.’”
Deuteronomy 31:16-17
The Lord said to Moses, “Behold, you are about to lie down [in death] with your fathers; and this people will arise and
Ezra 9:10
“Now, O our God, what shall we say after this? For we have abandoned (turned away from) Your commandments,
Psalm 89:30-32
“If his children
And do not walk in My ordinances,
Psalm 119:53
Burning indignation has seized me because of the wicked,
Who
Proverbs 28:4
Those who
But those who keep the law [of God and man] struggle with them.
Zephaniah 3:1-6
The tyrannical city [Jerusalem]!