Jeremiah 44:23 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²³ It is because you burned offerings and because you sinned against the Lord and did not obey the voice of the Lord or walk in his law and in his statutes and in his decrees that this disaster has befallen you, as is still evident today.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²³ Because ye have burned incense, and because ye have sinned against the LORD, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD, nor walked in his law, nor in his statutes, nor in his testimonies; therefore this evil is happened unto you, as at this day.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²³ Because you have burned incense [to idols] and because you have sinned against the Lord and have not obeyed the voice of the Lord or walked in His law and in His statutes and in His testimonies, therefore this evil has fallen upon you, as it is this day.

American Standard Version (1901)

²³ Because ye have burned incense, and because ye have sinned against Jehovah, and have not obeyed the voice of Jehovah, nor walked in his law, nor in his statutes, nor in his testimonies; therefore this evil is happened unto you, as it is this day.

Common English Bible

²³ The current dire situation occurred because you made offerings to other gods and sinned against the LORD—because you wouldn’t obey the LORD or follow the LORD’s instruction, laws, or warnings.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

²³ This is because you have sacrificed to idols, and you have sinned against the Lord. And you have not heeded the voice of the Lord, and you have not walked in his law, and in his precepts, and in his testimonies. It is for this reason that these evils have happened to you, just as it is today."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²³ Because you have sacrificed to idols and have sinned against the Lord, and have not obeyed the voice of the Lord, and have not walked in his law and in his commandments and in his testimonies: therefore are these evils come upon you, as at this day.

Jeremiah 44:23 Cross References

1 Kings 9:9

Then they will say, ‘Because they abandoned the Lord their God, who brought their ancestors out of the land of Egypt, and embraced other gods, worshiping them and serving them; therefore the Lord brought this disaster upon them.’ ”

2 Kings 17:15

They despised his statutes and his covenant that he had made with their ancestors and the warnings that he had given them. They went after false idols and became false; they followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom the Lord had commanded them that they should not do as they did.

2 Chronicles 36:16

but they kept mocking the messengers of God, despising his words, and scoffing at his prophets until the wrath of the Lord against his people became so great that there was no remedy.

Nehemiah 13:18

Did not your ancestors act in this way, and did not our God bring all this disaster on us and on this city? Yet you bring more wrath on Israel by profaning the Sabbath.”

Psalm 119:136

My eyes shed streams of tears because your law is not kept.

Psalm 119:150

Those who persecute me with evil purpose draw near; they are far from your law.

Psalm 119:155

Salvation is far from the wicked, for they do not seek your statutes.

Psalm 78:10

They did not keep God’s covenant and refused to walk according to his law.

Psalm 78:56

Yet they tested the Most High God and rebelled against him. They did not observe his decrees

Jeremiah 26:4

You shall say to them: Thus says the Lord: If you will not listen to me, to walk in my law that I have set before you

Jeremiah 40:3

and now the Lord has brought it about and has done as he said, because all of you sinned against the Lord and did not obey his voice. Therefore this thing has come upon you.

Jeremiah 44:10

They have shown no contrition or fear to this day, nor have they walked in my law and my statutes that I set before you and before your ancestors.

Jeremiah 44:18

But from the time we stopped making offerings to the queen of heaven and pouring out libations to her, we have lacked everything and have perished by the sword and by famine.”

Jeremiah 44:2

Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: You yourselves have seen all the disaster that I have brought on Jerusalem and on all the towns of Judah. Look at them; today they are a desolation, without an inhabitant in them,

Jeremiah 44:21

“As for the offerings that you made in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, you and your ancestors, your kings and your officials, and the people of the land, did not the Lord remember them? Did it not come into his mind?

Jeremiah 44:3

because of the wickedness that they committed, provoking me to anger, in that they went to make offerings to and serve other gods that they had not known, neither they, nor you, nor your ancestors.

Jeremiah 44:8

Why do you provoke me to anger with the works of your hands, making offerings to other gods in the land of Egypt, where you have come to settle? Will you be cut off and become an object of cursing and ridicule among all the nations of the earth?

Lamentations 1:8

Jerusalem sinned grievously, so she has become a filthy thing; all who honored her despise her, for they have seen her nakedness; she herself groans and turns her face away.

Daniel 9:13

Just as it is written in the law of Moses, all this calamity has come upon us. We did not entreat the favor of the Lord our God, turning from our iniquities and reflecting on his fidelity.

1 Corinthians 10:20

No, I imply that what they sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be partners with demons.

2 Corinthians 6:16

What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God, as God said, “I will live in them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.