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."
— Jeremiah 9:13, NET Bible
“And the Lord saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein;”
“And Jehovah saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein, ”
“Yahweh says, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein,”
“And the Lord said: Because they have forsaken my law, which I gave them, and have not heard my voice, and have not walked in it.”
“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;”
“And the Lord saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein;”
The Coming Destruction Calls For Mourning I said,“I will weep and mourn for the grasslands on the mountains, I will sing a mournful song for the pastures in the wilderness because they are so scorched no one travels through them. The sound of livestock is no longer heard there. Even the birds in the sky and the wild animals in the fields have fled and are gone.”
The LORD said,“I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins. Jackals will make their home there. I will destroy the towns of Judah so that no one will be able to live in them.”
I said,“Who is wise enough to understand why this has happened? Who has a word from the LORD that can explain it? Why does the land lie in ruins? Why is it as scorched as a desert through which no one travels?”
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.
Instead they have followed the stubborn inclinations of their own hearts. They have paid allegiance to the gods called Baal, as their fathers taught them to do.
So then, listen to what I, the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, say.‘I will make these people eat the bitter food of suffering and drink the poison water of judgment.
I will scatter them among nations that neither they nor their ancestors have known anything about. I will send people chasing after them with swords until I have destroyed them.’”