Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against you, and cast your law behind their back, and killed your prophets that testified against them to turn them again to you, and they committed awful blasphemies.
Jeremiah 4:17 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) As keepers of a field are they against her round about, because she has been rebellious against me, says 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 that testified against them to turn them again to you, and they committed awful blasphemies.
Yet many years did you bear with them, and testified against them by your Spirit through your prophets: yet would they not give ear: therefore gave you them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.
The daughter of Tziyon is left like a shelter in a vineyard, like a hut in a field of melons, like a besieged city.
For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children who will not hear the law of the LORD;
But this people has a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone.
It happened in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nevukhadnetzar 1 king of Bavel came, he and all his army, against Yerushalayim, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it round about.
The LORD is righteous; for I have rebelled against his mitzvah: Please hear all you peoples, and see my sorrow: My virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.
Yerushalayim has grievously sinned; therefore she is become as an unclean thing; all who honored her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yes, she sighs, and turns backward.
You have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I knew you.