13 Only acknowledge(A) your guilt—
    you have rebelled against the Lord your God,
you have scattered your favors to foreign gods(B)
    under every spreading tree,(C)
    and have not obeyed(D) me,’”
declares the Lord.

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13 (A)Only acknowledge your iniquity,
That you have transgressed against the Lord your God,
And have (B)scattered your [a]charms
To (C)alien deities (D)under every green tree,
And you have not obeyed My voice,’ says the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 3:13 Lit. ways

23 but I gave them this command:(A) Obey(B) me, and I will be your God and you will be my people.(C) Walk in obedience to all(D) I command you, that it may go well(E) with you. 24 But they did not listen(F) or pay attention;(G) instead, they followed the stubborn inclinations of their evil hearts.(H) They went backward(I) and not forward. 25 From the time your ancestors left Egypt until now, day after day, again and again(J) I sent you my servants(K) the prophets.(L) 26 But they did not listen to me or pay attention.(M) They were stiff-necked(N) and did more evil than their ancestors.’(O)

27 “When you tell(P) them all this, they will not listen(Q) to you; when you call to them, they will not answer.(R) 28 Therefore say to them, ‘This is the nation that has not obeyed the Lord its God or responded to correction.(S) Truth(T) has perished; it has vanished from their lips.

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23 But this is what I commanded them, saying, (A)‘Obey My voice, and (B)I will be your God, and you shall be My people. And walk in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well with you.’ 24 (C)Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but (D)followed[a] the counsels and the [b]dictates of their evil hearts, and (E)went[c] backward and not forward. 25 Since the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt until this day, I have even (F)sent to you all My servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them. 26 (G)Yet they did not obey Me or incline their ear, but (H)stiffened their neck. (I)They did worse than their fathers.

27 “Therefore (J)you shall speak all these words to them, but they will not obey you. You shall also call to them, but they will not answer you.

Judgment on Obscene Religion

28 “So you shall say to them, ‘This is a nation that does not obey the voice of the Lord their God (K)nor receive correction. (L)Truth has perished and has been cut off from their mouth.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 7:24 walked in
  2. Jeremiah 7:24 stubbornness or imagination
  3. Jeremiah 7:24 Lit. they were

She obeys(A) no one,
    she accepts no correction.(B)
She does not trust(C) in the Lord,
    she does not draw near(D) to her God.

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She has not obeyed His voice,
She has not received correction;
She has not trusted in the Lord,
She has not drawn near to her God.

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