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
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;
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,
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? 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!