Jeremiah 2:5

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

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?

Cross References

2 Kings 17:15

They rejected his statutes and his covenant he had made with their ancestors  and the warnings he had given them. They followed worthless idols and became worthless themselves,  following the surrounding nations the Lord had commanded them not to imitate.

Romans 1:21

For though they knew God, they did not glorify him as God or show gratitude. Instead, their thinking became worthless, and their senseless hearts were darkened.

Jonah 2:8

Those who cherish worthless idols abandon their faithful love,

Isaiah 44:9

All who make idols are nothing, and what they treasure benefits no one. Their witnesses do not see or know anything, so they will be put to shame.

1 Samuel 12:21

Don’t turn away to follow worthless  things that can’t profit or rescue you; they are worthless.

Deuteronomy 32:21

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.

Acts 14:15

‘People! Why are you doing these things? We are people also, just like you, and we are proclaiming good news to you, that you turn from these worthless things  to the living God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and everything in them.  ,

Jeremiah 2:31

Evil generation, pay attention to the word of the  Lord! Have I been a wilderness to Israel or a land of dense darkness? Why do my people claim, ‘We will go where we want; we will no longer come to you’?

Matthew 15:8

This people   honours me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

Ezekiel 11:15

‘Son of man, your own relatives, those who have the right to redeem your property,  , along with the entire house of Israel #– #all of them #– #are those to whom the residents of Jerusalem have said, “You are far from the Lord; this land has been given to us as a possession.”

Jeremiah 14:22

Can any of the worthless idols of the nations  bring rain? Or can the skies alone give showers? Are you not the  Lord our God? We therefore put our hope in you, for you have done all these things.

Jeremiah 12:2

You planted them,  and they have taken root. They have grown and produced fruit. You are ever on their lips, but far from their conscience.  ,

Jeremiah 10:8

They are both stupid and foolish, instructed by worthless idols made of wood!

Isaiah 29:13

The Lord said: These people approach me with their speeches to honour me with lip-service, yet their hearts are far from me, and human rules direct their worship of me.

Isaiah 46:12

Listen to me, you hard-hearted, far removed from justice:

Jeremiah 2:4

Hear the word of the  Lord, house of Jacob and all families of the house of Israel.

Jeremiah 8:19

Listen #– #the cry of my dear people from a faraway land, ‘Is the Lord no longer in Zion, her King not within her? ’ Why have they angered me with their carved images, with their worthless foreign idols?

Ezekiel 14:5

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