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Jeremiah 2:11

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Has a nation ever exchanged its gods? (But they were not gods!  ) Yet my people have exchanged their   Glory for useless idols.

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and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man, birds, four-footed animals, and reptiles.


They have thrown their gods into the fire, for they were not gods  but made from wood and stone  by human hands.  So they have destroyed them.


Can one make gods for himself? But they are not gods.


Though all the peoples walk in the name of their own gods, we will walk  in the name of the  Lord  our God for ever and ever.


About eating food sacrificed to idols, then, we know that ‘an idol is nothing in the world’,  and that ‘there is no God but one’.


The priests stopped asking, ‘Where is the  Lord? ’ The experts in the law no longer knew me, and the rulers  rebelled against me. The prophets prophesied by   Baal and followed useless idols.


This is what the  Lord  says: What fault did your ancestors find in me that they went so far from me, followed worthless idols, and became worthless themselves?


How happy you are, Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by the  Lord? He is the shield that protects you, the sword you boast in. Your enemies will cringe before you, and you will tread on their backs.  ,


For you know that you were redeemed from your empty way of life  inherited from your ancestors, not with perishable things like silver or gold,


But in the past, since you didn’t know God,  you were enslaved to things  that by nature are not gods.


She named the boy Ichabod,  saying, ‘The glory has departed from Israel,’  referring to the capture of the ark of God  and to the deaths of her father-in-law and her husband.


Didn’t you banish the priests of the Lord, the descendants of Aaron and the Levites, and make your own priests like the peoples of other lands do?  Whoever comes to ordain himself  with a young bull and seven rams may become a priest  of what are not gods.


Why should I forgive you? Your children have abandoned me and sworn by those who are not gods. I satisfied their needs, yet they committed adultery; they gashed themselves  at the   prostitute’s house.


Therefore, this is what the Lord says: Ask among the nations, who has heard things like these? Virgin Israel has done a most horrible thing.


‘Therefore, this is what the Lord God says: Because you have been more insubordinate than the nations around you   #– #you have not walked in my statutes or kept my ordinances; you have not even kept the ordinances of the nations around you #– #


so that I may take hold of the house of Israel by their hearts. They are all estranged from me because of their idols.”


They provoked his jealousy with different gods; they enraged him with detestable practices.


They have provoked my jealousy with what is not a god; they have enraged me with their worthless idols. So I will provoke their jealousy with what is not a people; I will enrage them with a foolish nation.


For they have abandoned me; they have bowed down to Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Sidonians, to Chemosh, the god of Moab, and to Milcom, the god of the Ammonites.  They have not walked in my ways to do what is right in my sight and to carry out my statutes and my judgements as his father David did.


But the angel of the Lord said to Elijah the Tishbite,  ‘Go and meet the messengers of the king of Samaria  and say to them, “Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are going to enquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron?





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