Jeremiah 2:5 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁵ thus saith the LORD, What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ Thus says the Lord: What unrighteousness did your fathers find in Me, that they went far from Me and [habitually] went after emptiness, falseness, and futility and themselves became fruitless and worthless?

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ Thus saith Jehovah, What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?

Common English Bible

⁵ This is what the LORD says: What wrong did your ancestors find in me that made them wander so far? They pursued what was worthless and became worthless.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ Thus says the Lord: "What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they would draw far away from me, and would walk after emptiness, and would become empty?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵ Thus saith the Lord: What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me and have walked after vanity and are become vain?

Jeremiah 2:5 Cross References

2 Kings 17:15

And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified unto them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the nations that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them that they should not do like them.

Psalm 115:8

They that make them shall be like unto them; Yea, every one that trusteth in them.

Isaiah 29:13

And the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw nigh unto me, and with their mouth and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which hath been taught them:

Isaiah 44:9

They that fashion a graven image are all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit: and their own witnesses see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.

Isaiah 46:12

Hearken unto me, ye stouthearted, that are far from righteousness:

Jeremiah 10:8

But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols, it is but a stock.

Jeremiah 12:2

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.

Jeremiah 14:22

Are there any among the vanities of the heathen that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou he, O LORD our God? therefore we will wait upon thee; for thou hast made all these things.

Jeremiah 2:31

O generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? or a land of thick darkness? wherefore say my people, We are broken loose; we will come no more unto thee?

Jeremiah 2:4

Hear ye the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel:

Jeremiah 8:19

Behold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land that is very far off: Is not the LORD in Zion? is not her King in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with strange vanities?

Ezekiel 11:15

Son of man, thy brethren, even thy brethren, the men of thy kindred, and all the house of Israel, all of them, are they unto whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Get you far from the LORD; unto us is this land given for a possession:

Ezekiel 14:5

that I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.

Jonah 2:8

They that regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy.

Matthew 15:8

This people honoureth me with their lips; But their heart is far from me.

Acts 14:15

and saying, Sirs, why do ye these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and bring you good tidings, that ye should turn from these vain things unto the living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea, and all that in them is:

Romans 1:21

because that, knowing God, they glorified him not as God, neither gave thanks; but became vain in their reasonings, and their senseless heart was darkened.

Deuteronomy 32:21

They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; They have provoked me to anger with their vanities: And I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

1 Samuel 12:21

and turn ye not aside: for then should ye go after vain things which cannot profit nor deliver, for they are vain.