Jeremiah 9:13
Good News Translation
The LORD answered, "This has happened because my people have abandoned the teaching that I gave them. They have not obeyed me or done what I told them.

New Revised Standard Version
And the LORD says: Because they have forsaken my law that I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, or walked in accordance with it,

Contemporary English Version
The LORD said: I destroyed the land because the people disobeyed me and rejected my laws and teachings.

New American Bible
The LORD said: Because they have abandoned my law, which I set before them, and did not listen to me or follow it,

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

Jeremiah 22:9 And they shall answer: Because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord their God, and have adored strange gods, and served them.

Deuteronomy 31:16,17 And the Lord said to Moses: Behold thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, and this people rising up will go a fornicating after strange gods in the land, to which it goeth in to dwell: there will they forsake me, and will make void the covenant, which I have made with them, . . .

2 Chronicles 7:19 But if you turn away, and forsake my justices, and my commandments which I have set before you, and shall go and serve strange gods, and adore them,

Ezra 9:10 And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? for we have forsaken thy commandments,

Psalm 89:30 And if his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments:

Psalm 119:53 A fainting hath taken hold of me, because of the wicked that forsake thy law.

Proverbs 28:4 They that forsake the law, praise the wicked man: they that keep it, are incensed against him.

Zephaniah 3:1-6 Woe to the provoking and redeemed city, the dove. . . .

Context
A Lament over Zion
12Who is the wise man, that may understand this, and to whom the word of the mouth of the Lord may come that he may declare this, why the land hath perished, and is burnt up like a wilderness, which none passeth through? 13And 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.14But they have gone after the perverseness of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them.…
Cross References
2 Chronicles 7:19
But if you turn away, and forsake my justices, and my commandments which I have set before you, and shall go and serve strange gods, and adore them,

Psalm 89:30
And if his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments:

Jeremiah 5:19
And if you shall say: Why hath the Lord our God done all these things to us? thou shalt say to them: As you have forsaken me, and served a strange god in your own land, so shall you serve strangers in a land that is not your own.

Jeremiah 22:9
And they shall answer: Because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord their God, and have adored strange gods, and served them.

Jeremiah 9:12
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