Jeremiah 2:5

Bible in Basic English 1965

These are the words of the Lord: What evil have your fathers seen in me that they have gone far from me, and, walking after what is false, have become false?

Cross References

2 Kings 17:15

And they went against his rules, and the agreement which he made with their fathers, and his laws which he gave them; they gave themselves up to things without sense or value, and became foolish like the nations round them, of whom the Lord had said, Do not as they do.

Psalm 115:8

Those who make them are like them; and so is everyone who puts his faith in them.

Isaiah 29:13

And the Lord said, because this people come near to me with their mouths, and give honour to me with their lips, but their heart is far from me, and their fear of me is false, a rule given them by the teaching of men;

Isaiah 44:9

Those who make a pictured image are all of them as nothing, and the things of their desire will be of no profit to them: and their servants see not, and have no knowledge; so they will be put to shame.

Isaiah 46:12

Give ear to me, you feeble-hearted, who have no faith in my righteousness:

Jeremiah 10:8

But they are together like beasts and foolish: the teaching of false gods is wood.

Jeremiah 12:2

They have been planted by you, they have taken root; they go on and give fruit: you are near in their mouths but far from their thoughts.

Jeremiah 14:22

Are any of the false gods of the nations able to make rain come? are the heavens able to give showers? are you not he, O Lord our God? so we will go on waiting for you, for you have done all these things.

Jeremiah 2:31

O generation, see the word of the Lord. Have I been a waste land to Israel? or a land of dark night? why do my people say, We have got loose, we will not come to you again?

Jeremiah 2:4

Give ear to the words of the Lord, O sons of Jacob and all the families of Israel:

Jeremiah 8:19

The voice of the cry of the daughter of my people comes from a far land: Is the Lord not in Zion? is not her King in her? Why have they made me angry with their images and their strange gods which are no gods?

Ezekiel 11:15

Son of man, your countrymen, your relations, and all the children of Israel, all of them, are those to whom the people of Jerusalem have said, Go far from the Lord; this land is given to us for a heritage:

Ezekiel 14:5

So as to take the children of Israel in the thoughts of their hearts, because they have become strange to me through their false gods.

Jonah 2:8

The worshippers of false gods have given up their only hope.

Matthew 15:8

These people give me honour with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

Acts 14:15

Good people, why are you doing these things? We are men with the same feelings as you, and we give you the good news so that you may be turned away from these foolish things to the living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all things in them:

Romans 1:21

Because, having the knowledge of God, they did not give glory to God as God, and did not give praise, but their minds were full of foolish things, and their hearts, being without sense, were made dark.

Deuteronomy 32:21

They have given my honour to that which is not God, moving me to wrath with their false worship: I will give their honour to those who are not a people, moving them to wrath by a foolish nation,

1 Samuel 12:21

And do not go from the right way turning to those false gods in which there is no profit and no salvation, for they are false.