Jeremiah 9:13

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Summary

And the LORD saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein;

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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.’”

The Lord said to Moses, “Behold, you are about to lie down [in death] with your fathers; and this people will arise and play the prostitute (commit apostasy) with the foreign gods [of the people] of the land, where they go to be among them. They will abandon (turn away from) Me and break My covenant which I have made with them.

“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,

“Now, O our God, what shall we say after this? For we have abandoned (turned away from) Your commandments,

“If his children turn away from My law
And do not walk in My ordinances,

Burning indignation has seized me because of the wicked,
Who reject Your law.

Those who set aside the law [of God and man] praise the wicked,
But those who keep the law [of God and man] struggle with them.

Woe (judgment is coming) to her who is rebellious and defiled,
The tyrannical city [Jerusalem]!