Jeremiah 18:15

WEB

¹⁵For my people have forgotten me. They have burned incense to false gods. They have been made to stumble in their ways in the ancient paths, to walk in byways, in a way not built up,

KJV

¹⁵Because my people^[+] hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not cast up;

BSB

¹⁵Yet My people have forgotten Me. They burn incense to worthless idols that make them stumble in their ways, leaving the ancient roads to walk on rutted bypaths instead of on the highway.

FBV

¹⁵But my people have rejected me! They burn incense to useless idols which trip them up, making them leave the old roads in order to walk down unmade paths instead of the highway.

Extra References

Jeremiah 6:16

¹⁶The LORD says, “Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, ‘Where is the good way?’ and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’

Jeremiah 2:32

³²“Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me for days without number.

Isaiah 57:14

¹⁴He will say, “Build up, build up, prepare the way! Remove the stumbling-block out of the way of my people.”

Hosea 11:2

²They called to them, so they went from them. They sacrificed to the Baals, and burned incense to engraved images.

Malachi 2:8

⁸But you have turned away from the path. You have caused many to stumble in the law. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi,” says the LORD of Armies.

Jeremiah 2:13

¹³“For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and cut out cisterns for themselves: broken cisterns that can’t hold water.

Jeremiah 10:15

¹⁵They are vanity, a work of delusion. In the time of their visitation they will perish.

Jeremiah 17:13

¹³LORD, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you will be disappointed. Those who depart from me will be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the spring of living waters.

Isaiah 41:29

²⁹Behold, all of their deeds are vanity and nothing. Their molten images are wind and confusion.

Jeremiah 13:25

²⁵This is your lot, the portion measured to you from me,” says the LORD, “because you have forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.”