Jeremiah 18:15
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
Yet 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.

Young's Literal Translation
But My people have forgotten Me, to a vain thing they make perfume, And they cause them to stumble in their ways—paths of old, To walk in paths—a way not raised up,

King James Bible
Because 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;

Hebrew
Yet
כִּֽי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

My people
עַמִּ֖י (‘am·mî)
Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 5971: A people, a tribe, troops, attendants, a flock

have forgotten Me.
שְׁכֵחֻ֥נִי (šə·ḵê·ḥu·nî)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural | first person common singular
Strong's 7911: To mislay, to be oblivious of, from want of memory, attention

They burn incense
יְקַטֵּ֑רוּ (yə·qaṭ·ṭê·rū)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 6999: To smoke, turn into fragrance by fire

to worthless idols
לַשָּׁ֣וְא (laš·šāw)
Preposition-l, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7723: Evil, idolatry, uselessness

that make them stumble
וַיַּכְשִׁל֤וּם (way·yaḵ·ši·lūm)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural | third person masculine plural
Strong's 3782: To totter, waver, to falter, stumble, faint, fall

in their ways
בְּדַרְכֵיהֶם֙ (bə·ḏar·ḵê·hem)
Preposition-b | Noun - common plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 1870: A road, a course of life, mode of action

on the ancient
עוֹלָ֔ם (‘ō·w·lām)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5769: Concealed, eternity, frequentatively, always

roads
שְׁבִילֵ֣י (šə·ḇî·lê)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 7635: A track, passage-way

and walk
לָלֶ֣כֶת (lā·le·ḵeṯ)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 1980: To go, come, walk

on bypaths
נְתִיב֔וֹת (nə·ṯî·ḇō·wṯ)
Noun - feminine plural construct
Strong's 5410: Path, pathway

instead of
לֹ֥א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

the highway.
סְלוּלָֽה׃ (sə·lū·lāh)
Verb - Qal - QalPassParticiple - feminine singular
Strong's 5549: To mound up, to exalt, to oppose

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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