Jeremiah 2:5

A Conservative Version

Thus says LORD: What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and have become vain?

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 to them. And they followed vanity, and became vain, and [went] after the nations that were round about them, c

Romans 1:21

Because, although knowing God, they did not glorify him as God, nor were they thankful, but became vain in their reasonings and their heart was darkened without understanding.

Jonah 2:8

Those who regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy.

Psalm 115:8

Those who make them shall be like them. Yea, everyone who trusts in them.

Isaiah 44:9

Those who fashion a graven image are all of them vanity. And the things that they delight in shall not profit. And their own witnesses see not, nor know, that they may be put to shame.

1 Samuel 12:21

And turn ye not aside after vain things which cannot profit nor deliver, for they are vain.

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 a non-nation. I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

Acts 14:15

and saying, Men, why are ye doing these things? We also are men of like nature with you, proclaiming good-news to you, to turn from these vain things to the living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea, and all the thi

Jeremiah 2:31

O generation, see ye the word of LORD. Have I been a wilderness to Israel, or a land of thick darkness? Why do my people say, We have broken loose. We will come no more to thee?

Matthew 15:8

This people comes near me with their mouth, and honors me with their lips, but their heart is far distant from me.

Ezekiel 11:15

Son of man, thy brothers, even thy brothers, the men of thy kindred, and all the house of Israel, all of them, [are those] to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Get you far from LORD. This land is given to us for a posses

Jeremiah 14:22

Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? Or can the heavens give showers? Are not thou he, O LORD our God? Therefore we will wait for thee, for thou have made all these things.

Jeremiah 12:2

Thou have planted them. Yea, they have taken root, they grow. Yea, they bring forth fruit. Thou are near in their mouth, and far from their heart.

Jeremiah 10:8

But they are together brutish and foolish, the instruction of idols! It is but a block of wood.

Isaiah 29:13

And LORD said, Inasmuch as this people draw near [me] with their mouth, and honor me with their lips, but have removed their heart far from me, but in vain they worship me (LXX/NT), teaching the commandments and doctrines of men

Isaiah 46:12

Hearken to me, ye stout-hearted, who are far from righteousness:

Jeremiah 2:4

Hear ye the word of 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 LORD in Zion? Is not her King in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with foreign vanities?

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.