Jeremiah 12:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

² You plant them, and they take root; they grow and bring forth fruit; you are near in their mouths yet far from their hearts.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² Thou hast planted them, yea, they have taken root: they grow, yea, they bring forth fruit: thou art near in their mouth, and far from their reins.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² You have planted them, yes, they have taken root; they grow, yes, they bring forth fruit. You are near in their mouths but far from their hearts.

American Standard Version (1901)

² Thou hast planted them, yea, they have taken root; they grow, yea, they bring forth fruit: thou art near in their mouth, and far from their heart.

Common English Bible

² You plant them, and they take root; they flourish and bear fruit. You are always on their lips but far from their hearts.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² You planted them, and they took root. They are prospering and bearing fruit. You are near to their mouths, but far from their hearts.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² Thou hast planted them, and they have taken root: they prosper and bring forth fruit: thou art near in their mouth and far from their reins.

Jeremiah 12:2 Cross References

Job 24:12

From the city the dying groan, and the throat of the wounded cries for help; yet God pays no attention to their prayer.

Job 5:3

I have seen fools taking root, but suddenly I cursed their dwelling.

Psalm 37:35

I have seen the wicked oppressing and towering like a cedar of Lebanon.

Isaiah 29:13

The Lord said: Because these people draw near with their mouths and honor me with their lips, while their hearts are far from me and their worship of me is a human commandment learned by rote,

Jeremiah 11:17

The Lord of hosts, who planted you, has pronounced evil against you because of the evil that the house of Israel and the house of Judah have done, provoking me to anger by making offerings to Baal.

Jeremiah 3:10

Yet for all this her false sister Judah did not return to me with her whole heart but only in pretense, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 45:4

Thus you shall say to him, “Thus says the Lord: I am going to break down what I have built and pluck up what I have planted—that is, the whole land.

Ezekiel 33:31

They come to you as people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but they will not obey them. For flattery is on their lips, but their heart is set on their gain.

Hosea 7:14

They do not cry to me from the heart, but they wail upon their beds; they gash themselves for grain and wine; they rebel against me.

Habakkuk 1:13

Your eyes are too pure to behold evil, and you cannot look on wrongdoing; why do you look on the treacherous and are silent when the wicked swallow those more righteous than they?

Matthew 15:8

‘This people honors me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me;

Mark 7:6

He said to them, “Isaiah prophesied rightly about you hypocrites, as it is written, ‘This people honors me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me;

Titus 1:16

They profess to know God, but they deny him by their actions; they are detestable, disobedient, unfit for any good work.