Parallel Verses
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,
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,
Amplified
The Lord said, “Because they have
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;
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 a wise man, that he may understand this? and he to whom the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken, that he may declare it? Why is the land perished, burnt up like a wilderness, so that none passeth through? 13 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, 14 but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart, and after the Baals, as their fathers taught them;
Cross References
2 Chronicles 7:19
But if ye turn away and forsake my statutes and my commandments which I have set before you, and go and serve other gods and worship them;
Jeremiah 22:9
And they shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of Jehovah their God, and worshipped other gods, and served them.
Deuteronomy 31:16-17
And Jehovah said to Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the strange gods of the land into which they enter, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.
Ezra 9:10
And now, what shall we say, our God, after this? for we have forsaken thy commandments,
Psalm 89:30-32
If his sons forsake my law, and walk not in mine ordinances;
Psalm 119:53
Burning indignation hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked who forsake thy law.
Proverbs 28:4
They that forsake the law praise the wicked; but such as keep the law contend with them.
Zephaniah 3:1-6
Woe to her that is rebellious and corrupted, to the oppressing city!