You shall tell them, “Yahweh says: ‘If you will not listen to me, to walk in my law, which I have set before you,
Parallel translations
- KJV And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD; If ye will not hearken to me, to walk in my law, which I have set before you,
- BSB And you are to tell them that this is what the LORD says: ‘If you do not listen to Me and walk in My law, which I have set before you,
- NKJV And you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord: “If you will not listen to Me, to walk in My law which I have set before you,
- NASB And you shall say to them, ‘This is what the Lord says: “If you do not listen to Me, to walk in My Law which I have set before you,
- NLT “Say to them, ‘This is what the Lord says: If you will not listen to me and obey my word I have given you,
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Quick answer
Jeremiah is to warn that if they will not listen and walk in God's law set before them, judgment follows. Obedience to God's revealed word is the condition of blessing.
Overview
The LORD frames the message conditionally: continued refusal to heed His word and walk in His law will bring the threatened disaster. God's covenant calls for obedient response to His revealed will. The verse, beginning the substance of the temple sermon, sets the stakes of either heeding or rejecting God's word.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 17
- 1 Kgs 9:6But if you turn away from following me, you or your children, and not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship them;
- Jer 44:10They are not humbled even to this day, neither have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set before you and before your fathers.’
- Isa 1:20but if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword; for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it.”
- 2 Chr 7:19–20But if you turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them;
- Josh 23:15–16It shall happen that as all the good things have come on you of which Yahweh your God spoke to you, so Yahweh will bring on you all the evil things, until he has destroyed you from off this good land which Yahweh your God has given you,
- Deut 11:32You shall observe to do all the statutes and the ordinances which I set before you today.
- Deut 32:15–25But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked. You have grown fat. You have grown thick. You have become sleek. Then he abandoned God who made him, and rejected the Rock of his salvation.
- Neh 9:26–30“Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against you, cast your law behind their back, killed your prophets that testified against them to turn them again to you, and they committed awful blasphemies.
- Deut 4:8What great nation is there, that has statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this law, which I set before you today?
- Isa 42:23–25Who is there among you who will give ear to this? Who will listen and hear for the time to come?
- Deut 31:16–18Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers. This people will rise up, and play the prostitute after the strange gods of the land, where they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.
- Deut 29:18–28lest there should be among you man, woman, family, or tribe whose heart turns away today from Yahweh our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that produces bitter poison;
- Deut 28:15–68But it shall come to pass, if you will not listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command you today, that all these curses will come on you, and overtake you.
- Heb 6:18that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.
- Deut 31:20For when I have brought them into the land which I swore to their fathers, flowing with milk and honey, and they have eaten and filled themselves, and grown fat; then they will turn to other gods, and serve them, and despise me, and break my covenant.
- Lev 26:14–46“‘But if you will not listen to me, and will not do all these commandments;
- Deut 4:44This is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel.
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