Jeremiah 12:2

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

You plant them like trees; you let them prosper and produce fruit. Yet even when they praise you, they don't mean it.

Cross References

Job 24:12

And along the city streets, the wounded and dying cry out, yet God does nothing.

Job 5:3

I have seen fools take root. But God sends a curse, suddenly uprooting them

Psalm 37:35

I have seen brutal people abuse others and grow strong like trees in rich soil.

Isaiah 29:13

The Lord has said: “These people praise me with their words, but they never really think about me. They worship me by repeating rules made up by humans.

Jeremiah 11:17

I am the LORD All-Powerful. You people of Judah were like a tree that I had planted, but you have made me angry by offering sacrifices to Baal, just as the northern kingdom did. And now I'm going to pull you up by the roots.

Jeremiah 3:10

And worst of all, the people of Judah pretended to come back to me.

Jeremiah 45:4

But all over the earth I am tearing down what I built and pulling up what I planted.

Ezekiel 33:31

So they all come and listen to you, but they refuse to do what you tell them. They claim to be faithful, but they are for ever trying to cheat others out of their money.

Hosea 7:14

They don't really pray to me; they just howl in their beds. They have rejected me for Baal and slashed themselves, in the hope that Baal will bless their crops.

Habakkuk 1:13

But you can't stand sin or wrong. So don't sit by in silence while they gobble up people who are better than they are.

Matthew 15:8

“All of you praise me with your words, but you never really think about me.

Mark 7:6

Jesus replied: You are nothing but show-offs! The prophet Isaiah was right when he wrote that God had said, “All of you praise me with your words, but you never really think about me.

Titus 1:16

Such people claim to know God, but their actions prove that they really don't. They are disgusting. They won't obey God, and they are too worthless to do anything good.