Parallel Verses

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,

New American Standard Bible

The Lord said, “Because they have forsaken My law which I set before them, and have not obeyed My voice nor walked according to it,

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 that I set in front of them and did not obey My voice or walk according to it.

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 turned away from My law which I set before them, and have not listened to and obeyed My voice nor walked in accordance with it,

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,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And the Lord

Usage: 0

my law
תּרה תּורה 
Towrah 
law
Usage: 219

נתן 
Nathan 
Usage: 2011

פּנים 
Paniym 
Usage: 2119

my voice
קל קול 
Qowl 
Usage: 506

הלך 
Halak 
go, walk, come, ...away, ...along,
Usage: 1545

Context Readings

Judah's Failures

12 Who is the wise man? and he understandeth this, And he to whom the mouth of Jehovah spake? And he doth declare it, For what hath the land perished? It hath been burnt up as a wilderness, Without any passing through. 13 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, 14 And they walk after the stubbornness of their heart, And after the Baalim, that their fathers taught them,

Cross References

2 Chronicles 7:19

and if ye turn back -- ye -- and have forsaken My statutes, and My commands, that I have placed before you, and have gone and served other gods, and bowed yourselves to them -- then I have plucked them from off My ground that I have given to them,

Jeremiah 22:9

And they have said, 'Because that they have forsaken The covenant of Jehovah their God, And bow themselves to other gods, and serve them.'

Deuteronomy 31:16-17

And Jehovah saith unto Moses, 'Lo, thou art lying down with thy fathers, and this people hath risen, and gone a-whoring after the gods of the stranger of the land into the midst of which it hath entered, and forsaken Me, and broken My covenant which I made with it;

Ezra 9:10

'And now, what do we say, O our God, after this? for we have forsaken Thy commands,

Psalm 89:30-32

If his sons forsake My law, And in My judgments do not walk;

Psalm 119:53

Horror hath seized me, Because of the wicked forsaking Thy law.

Proverbs 28:4

Those forsaking the law praise the wicked, Those keeping the law plead against them.

Zephaniah 3:1-6

Woe to the rebellious and polluted, The oppressing city!

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