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Jeremiah 14:10
This is what the LORD says about this people: “Truly they love to wander; they have not restrained their feet. So the LORD does not accept them; He will now remember their iniquity and punish them for their sins.”
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The LORD addresses Jeremiah in direct response to the people's plea in verse 9, immediately preceding the command in verse 11 to stop praying for them.
The words — The text records אָֽהֲבוּ֙ ('a.ha.Vu), literally "they have loved," paired with לָ/נ֔וּעַ (la./Nu.a'), meaning "to wander," describing a deliberate preference for spiritual drift over obedience.
The thread — God's declaration that He will remember iniquity and punish sins runs parallel to Hosea 9:9 and Hosea 8:13, while Psalm 119:101 contrasts the people's unrestrained feet with a posture of kept restraint.
Why it lands — The passage states that persistent, unrestrained rebellion causes God to withhold acceptance and actively recall guilt for punishment, requiring the cessation of intercession rather than continued petition.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Thus saith the Lord unto this people, Thus have they loved to wander, they have not refrained their feet, therefore the Lord doth not accept them; he will now remember their iniquity, and visit their sins.
Cross-references
- Hosea 9:9 They have deeply corrupted themselves as in the days of Gibeah; He will remember their guilt; He will punish their sins.
- Psalms 119:101 I have kept my feet from every evil path, that I may keep Your word.
- Hosea 8:13 Though they offer sacrifices as gifts to Me, and though they eat the meat, the LORD does not accept them. Now He will remember their iniquity and punish their sins: They will return to Egypt.
- Jeremiah 6:20 What use to Me is frankincense from Sheba or sweet cane from a distant land? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable; your sacrifices do not please Me.”
- Amos 5:22 Even though you offer Me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; for your peace offerings of fattened cattle I will have no regard.
- Jeremiah 31:34 No longer will each man teach his neighbor or his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ because they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquities and will remember their sins no more.”
- Hebrews 8:12 For I will forgive their iniquities and will remember their sins no more.”
- 1 Samuel 15:2 This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘I witnessed what the Amalekites did to the Israelites when they opposed them on their way up from Egypt.
- 1 Kings 17:18 “O man of God,” said the woman to Elijah, “what have you done to me? Have you come to remind me of my iniquity and cause the death of my son?”
- Psalms 109:14 May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the LORD, and the sin of his mother never be blotted out.