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Jeremiah 18:15

Jeremiah chapter 18 · verse 15 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

For my people have forgotten me, they have burned incense to false gods; and they have been made to stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in bypaths, in a way not cast up;

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not cast up;

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

For my people have forgotten me, they have burned incense to false gods; and they have been made to stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in bypaths, in a way not cast up;

Context

v.14Shall the snow of Lebanon fail from the rock of the field? or shall the cold waters that flow down from afar be dried up?

v.15This passage

v.16to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and shake his head.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Jeremiah 6:16

    Thus saith Jehovah, Stand ye in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way; and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls: but they said, We will not walk therein.

  • Matthew 15:6

    he shall not honor his father. And ye have made void the word of God because of your tradition.

  • Jeremiah 3:21

    A voice is heard upon the bare heights, the weeping and the supplications of the children of Israel; because they have perverted their way, they have forgotten Jehovah their God.

  • Jeremiah 19:5

    and have built the high places of Baal, to burn their sons in the fire for burnt-offerings unto Baal; which I commanded not, nor spake it, neither came it into my mind:

  • Isaiah 9:16

    For they that lead this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed.

  • Isaiah 65:7

    your own iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith Jehovah, that have burned incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills: therefore will I first measure their work into their bosom.