Have you not brought this upon yourself by forsaking the Lord your God, while he led you in the way?

Then I said, “These are only the poor; they have no sense, for they do not know the way of the Lord, the law of their God.

Let me go to the rich and speak to them; surely they know the way of the Lord, the law of their God.” But they all alike had broken the yoke; they had burst the bonds.

But this command I gave them, “Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people; walk only in the way that I command you, so that it may be well with you.”

Thus says the Lord: Do not learn the way of the nations or be dismayed at the signs of the heavens, for the nations are dismayed at them.

I know, O Lord, that the way of humans is not in their control, that mortals as they walk cannot direct their steps.

Jeremiah Complains to God

You will be in the right, O Lord, when I lay charges against you, but let me put my case to you. Why does the way of the guilty prosper? Why do all who are treacherous thrive?

And to this people you shall say: Thus says the Lord: See, I am setting before you the way of life and the way of death.

They shall ask the way to Zion, with faces turned toward it, and they shall come and join themselves to the Lord by an everlasting covenant that will never be forgotten.

Then a breach was made in the city wall, and all the soldiers fled and went out from the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, by the King’s Garden, though the Chaldeans were all around the city. They went in the direction of the Arabah.