“Nevertheless, they were disobedient and rebelled against you and cast your law behind their back and killed your prophets, who had warned them in order to turn them back to you, and they committed great blasphemies.
Jeremiah 4:17 - English Standard Version 2016 Like keepers of a field are they against her all around, because she has rebelled against me, declares the Lord. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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 you and cast your law behind their back and killed your prophets, who had warned them in order to turn them back to you, and they committed great blasphemies.
Many years you bore with them and warned them by your Spirit through your prophets. Yet they would not give ear. Therefore you gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.
And the daughter of Zion is left like a booth in a vineyard, like a lodge in a cucumber field, like a besieged city.
For they are a rebellious people, lying children, children unwilling to hear the instruction of the Lord;
But this people has a stubborn and rebellious heart; they have turned aside and gone away.
And in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came with all his army against Jerusalem, and laid siege to it. And they built siegeworks all around it.
“The Lord is in the right, for I have rebelled against his word; but hear, all you peoples, and see my suffering; my young women and my young men have gone into captivity.
Jerusalem sinned grievously; therefore she became filthy; all who honored her despise her, for they have seen her nakedness; she herself groans and turns her face away.
You have been rebellious against the Lord from the day that I knew you.