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Jeremiah 9:14

Pride

12 Who is the man wise enough to understand this? To whom has the mouth of the LORD spoken, that he may explain it? Why is the land destroyed and scorched like a desert, so no one can pass through it?

13 And the LORD answered, “It is because they have forsaken My law, which I set before them; they have not walked in it or obeyed My voice.

Instead, they have followed the stubbornness of their hearts and gone after the Baals, as their fathers taught them.”

15 Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Behold, I will feed this people wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink.

16 I will scatter them among the nations that neither they nor their fathers have known, and I will send a sword after them until I have finished them off.”

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This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
Instead, they have followed the stubbornness of their hearts and gone after the Baals, as their fathers taught them.”
KJV
But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:
WEB
but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart and after the Baals, which their fathers taught them.”
ASV
but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart, and after the Baalim, which their fathers taught them;
DARBY
but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart, and after the Baals, as their fathers taught them;
BLB
And they have walked after the stubborness of their own heart, and after the Baals, which their fathers taught them.
ÅB
men fulgte sitt hårde hjerte, og fulgte Ba'alene, slik som deres fedre hadde lært dem,
OTB
men har fulgt sine hjertes stahet og Baalene, slik deres fedre lærte dem."
B1930
men fulgte sitt hårde hjerte, og fulgte Ba'alene, slik som deres fedre hadde lært dem,

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Jeremiah 3:17

    At that time Jerusalem will be called The Throne of the LORD, and all the nations will be gathered in Jerusalem to honor the name of the LORD. They will no longer follow the stubbornness of their evil hearts.

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  • Jeremiah 7:24

    Yet they did not listen or incline their ear, but they followed the stubborn inclinations of their own evil hearts. They went backward and not forward.

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  • Ephesians 2:3

    All of us also lived among them at one time, fulfilling the cravings of our flesh and indulging its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature children of wrath.

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  • 1 Peter 1:18

    For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life you inherited from your forefathers,

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  • Romans 1:21–24

    For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts.

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  • Galatians 1:14

    I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries and was extremely zealous for the traditions of my fathers.

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  • Jeremiah 2:8

    The priests did not ask, ‘Where is the LORD?’ The experts in the law no longer knew Me, and the leaders rebelled against Me. The prophets prophesied by Baal and followed useless idols.

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  • Genesis 6:5

    Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great upon the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was altogether evil all the time.

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