Jeremiah 2:11 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI) Has a nation changed its gods, even though they are no gods? But my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Has a nation [ever] changed its gods, even though they are not gods? But My people have changed their Glory [God] for that which does not profit. American Standard Version (1901) Hath a nation changed its gods, which yet are no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit. Common English Bible Has a nation switched gods, though they aren’t really gods at all? Yet my people have exchanged their glory for what has no value. Catholic Public Domain Version See if a nation has ever changed their gods, though certainly those are not gods. Yet truly, my people have exchanged their glory for an idol. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version If a nation hath changed their gods, and indeed they are not gods: but my people have changed their glory into an idol. |
because he has forsaken me, and worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Milcom the god of the Ammonites, and has not walked in my ways, doing what is right in my sight and keeping my statutes and my ordinances, as David his father did.
But the angel of the Lord said to Elijah the Tishbite, “Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say to them, ‘Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are going to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron?’
Have you not driven out the priests of the Lord, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and made priests for yourselves like the peoples of other lands? Whoever comes to consecrate himself with a young bull or seven rams becomes a priest of what are no gods.
But thou, O Lord, art a shield about me, my glory, and the lifter of my head.
and have cast their gods into the fire; for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone; therefore they were destroyed.
“Therefore thus says the Lord: Ask among the nations, who has heard the like of this? The virgin Israel has done a very horrible thing.
Thus says the Lord: “What wrong did your fathers find in me that they went far from me, and went after worthlessness, and became worthless?
The priests did not say, ‘Where is the Lord?’ Those who handle the law did not know me; the rulers transgressed against me; the prophets prophesied by Baal, and went after things that do not profit.
“How can I pardon you? Your children have forsaken me, and have sworn by those who are no gods. When I fed them to the full, they committed adultery and trooped to the houses of harlots.
that I may lay hold of the hearts of the house of Israel, who are all estranged from me through their idols.
Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because you are more turbulent than the nations that are round about you, and have not walked in my statutes or kept my ordinances, but have acted according to the ordinances of the nations that are round about you;
For all the peoples walk each in the name of its god, but we will walk in the name of the Lord our God for ever and ever.
and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man or birds or animals or reptiles.
Hence, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that “an idol has no real existence,” and that “there is no God but one.”
Formerly, when you did not know God, you were in bondage to beings that by nature are no gods;
They stirred him to jealousy with strange gods; with abominable practices they provoked him to anger.
They have stirred me to jealousy with what is no god; they have provoked me with their idols. So I will stir them to jealousy with those who are no people; I will provoke them with a foolish nation.
Happy are you, O Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by the Lord, the shield of your help, and the sword of your triumph! Your enemies shall come fawning to you; and you shall tread upon their high places.”
You know that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your fathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold,
And she named the child Ichabod, saying, “The glory has departed from Israel!” because the ark of God had been captured and because of her father-in-law and her husband.