Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
Then you are to say to them, ‘It is
King James Version
Then shalt thou say unto them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, saith the LORD, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshipped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my law;
Holman Bible
Then you will answer them: Because your fathers abandoned Me”
International Standard Version
Then say to them, "It is because your ancestors abandoned me,' declares the LORD. "They followed other gods, served them, worshipped them, abandoned me, and didn't keep my Law.
A Conservative Version
Then thou shall say to them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, says LORD, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshipped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my law.
American Standard Version
Then shalt thou say unto them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, saith Jehovah, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshipped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my law;
Amplified
Then you are to say to them, ‘It is because your fathers have abandoned (rejected) Me,’ says the Lord, ‘and have walked after other gods and have served them and bowed down to the handmade idols and have abandoned (rejected) Me and have not kept My law,
Bible in Basic English
Then you will say to them, Because your fathers have given me up, says the Lord, and have gone after other gods and become their servants and their worshippers, and have given me up and have not kept my law;
Darby Translation
then shalt thou say unto them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, saith Jehovah, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshipped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my law;
Julia Smith Translation
And say to them, Because your fathers forsook me, says Jehovah, and went after other gods, and they will serve them and worship to them, and they forsook me, and my law they watched not;
King James 2000
Then shall you say unto them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, says the LORD, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshiped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my law;
Lexham Expanded Bible
Then you shall say to them, '{Because} your ancestors have forsaken me,' {declares} Yahweh, 'and they have gone after other gods, and they have served them, and they have bowed down in worship to them, and they have forsaken me, and they have not kept my laws.
Modern King James verseion
Then you shall say to them, Because your fathers have forsaken Me, says Jehovah, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshiped them, and have forsaken Me, and have not kept My Law.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Then make thou them this answer: Because your fathers have forsaken me, sayeth the LORD, and have cleaved unto strange gods, whom they have honored and worshiped: but me have they forsaken, and have not kept my law.
NET Bible
Then tell them that the Lord says, 'It is because your ancestors rejected me and paid allegiance to other gods. They have served them and worshiped them. But they have rejected me and not obeyed my law.
New Heart English Bible
Then you shall tell them, 'Because your fathers have forsaken me, says the LORD, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshiped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my law;
The Emphasized Bible
Then shalt thou say unto them, - For that your fathers forsook, me, Declareth Yahweh, And walked after other gods, and served them, and bowed down to them, - Whereas me, they forsook And my law, kept they not;
Webster
Then shalt thou say to them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, saith the LORD, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshiped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my law;
World English Bible
Then you shall tell them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, says Yahweh, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshiped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my law;
Youngs Literal Translation
Then thou hast said unto them: Because that your fathers have forsaken Me, An affirmation of Jehovah, And go after other gods, and serve them, And they bow themselves to them, And Me have forsaken, and My law not kept,
Themes
Heart » The reward for walking after the imagination of your own heart
Idolatry » Punishment of » Dreadful judgments which end in death
Interlinear
'ab
`azab
Yalak
'elohiym
`abad
Shachah
`azab
Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 16:11
Verse Info
Context Readings
Abandoning The Lord And His Law
10
“Now when you tell this people all these words, they will say to you, ‘
Names
Cross References
Psalm 106:35-41
And learned their
Deuteronomy 29:25-26
Then men will say, ‘
1 Kings 9:9
And they will say, ‘
Nehemiah 9:26-29
And
And
So that they might return to You,
And
Jeremiah 5:7-9
Your sons have forsaken Me
And
When I had fed them to the full,
They
And trooped to the harlot’s house.
Jeremiah 8:2
They will spread them out to the sun, the moon and to all the
Jeremiah 22:9
Then they will
Ezekiel 11:21
1 Peter 4:3
For
Judges 2:12-13
and
Judges 10:13-14
Yet
Jeremiah 2:8
And those who handle the law
The
And the
And walked after
Jeremiah 9:14
but have
Daniel 9:10-12
nor have we obeyed the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in His