Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their back, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them again unto thee, and they wrought great provocations.
Jeremiah 4:17 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 As keepers of a field are they against her round about; because she hath been rebellious against me, saith the LORD. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 As keepers of a field, are they against her round about; because she hath been rebellious against me, saith the LORD. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Like keepers of a field they are against her round about, because she has been rebellious against Me, says the Lord. American Standard Version (1901) As keepers of a field are they against her round about, because she hath been rebellious against me, saith Jehovah. Common English Bible They hem her in like those guarding a field, because she has rebelled against me, declares the LORD. Catholic Public Domain Version They have been stationed over her, like the guardians of fields, all around. For she has provoked me to wrath, says the Lord. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version They are set round about her, as keepers of fields: because she hath provoked me to wrath, saith the Lord. |
Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their back, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them again unto thee, and they wrought great provocations.
Yet many years didst thou bear with them, and testifiedst against them by thy spirit through thy prophets: yet would they not give ear: therefore gavest thou them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.
And the daughter of Zion is left as a booth in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.
For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD:
But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone.
And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it round about.
The LORD is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: hear, I pray you, all ye peoples, and behold my sorrow: my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.
Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is become as an unclean thing: all that honoured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward.