Jeremiah 2:5

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Thus saith the Lord: What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me and have walked after vanity and are become vain?

Cross References

2 Kings 17:15

And they rejected his ordinances and the covenant that he made with their fathers, and the testimonies which he testified against them. And they followed vanities, and acted vainly. And they followed the nations that were round about them, concerning which the Lord had commanded them that they should not do as they did.

Romans 1:21

Because that, when they knew God, they have not glorified him as God, or given thanks; but became vain in their thoughts, and their foolish heart was darkened.

Jonah 2:8

When my soul was in distress within me, I remembered the Lord: that my prayer may come to thee, unto thy holy temple.

Isaiah 44:9

The makers of idols are all of them nothing: and their best beloved things shall not profit them. They are their witnesses, that they do not see nor understand, that they may be ashamed.

1 Samuel 12:21

And turn not aside after vain things which shall never profit you, nor deliver you, because they are vain.

Deuteronomy 32:21

They have provoked me with that which was no god, and have angered me with their vanities. And I will provoke them with that which is no people, and will vex them with a foolish nation.

Acts 14:15

Who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.

Jeremiah 2:31

See ye the word of the Lord: Am I become a wilderness to Israel, or a lateward springing land? Why then have my people said: We are revolted, we will come to thee no more?

Matthew 15:8

This people honoureth me with their lips: but their heart is far from me.

Ezekiel 11:15

Son of man, thy brethren, thy brethren, thy kinsmen and all the house of Israel, all they to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said: Get ye far from the Lord, the land is given in possession to us.

Jeremiah 14:22

Are there any among the graven things of the Gentiles that can send rain? Or can the heavens give showers? Art not thou the Lord our God, whom we have looked for? For thou hast made all these things.

Jeremiah 12:2

Thou hast planted them, and they have taken root: they prosper and bring forth fruit: thou art near in their mouth and far from their reins.

Jeremiah 10:8

They shall all proved together to be senseless and foolish: the doctrine of their vanity is wood.

Isaiah 29:13

And the Lord said: Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips glorify me, but their heart is far from me, and they have feared me with the commandment and doctrines of men:

Isaiah 46:12

I have brought my justice near: it shall not be afar off, and my salvation shall not tarry. I will give salvation in Sion and my glory in Israel.

Jeremiah 2:4

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

Jeremiah 8:19

Behold the voice of the daughter my people from a far country: Is not the Lord in Sion, or is not her king in her? Why then have they provoked me to wrath with their idols and strange vanities?

Ezekiel 14:5

That the house of Israel may be caught in their own heart, with which they have departed from me through all their idols.