Jeremiah 2:5

Julia E. Smith Translation 1876

Thus said Jehovah, What iniquity found your fathers in me that they removed far off from me, and went after vanity, and they became vain?

Cross References

2 Kings 17:15

And they will reject his laws and his covenant which he cut out with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified in them; and they will go after vanity, and they will be vain, and after the nations which were round about them which Jehovah commanded them not to do as they.

Psalm 115:8

They making them shall be as they; all that trusted in them.

Isaiah 29:13

And Jehovah will say, Because that this people drew near with their month, and honored me with their lips, and their heart was far from me, and their fear towards me shall be taught from the command of men.

Isaiah 44:9

They forming a carved image all of them emptiness; and their delights shall not profit, and they are their witnesses; they will not see and they will not know, so that they shall be ashamed.

Isaiah 46:12

Hear to me, ye strong of heart, being far from justice.

Jeremiah 10:8

And in one they will become brutish, and they will be foolish: the tree itself a correction of vanities.

Jeremiah 12:2

Thou didst plant them; they took root; they went on, also they made fruit: thou being near in their mouth, and far off from their reins.

Jeremiah 14:22

Is there among the vanities of the nations those causing ruin? and if the heavens will give showers? Art not thou he, Jehovah our God? And we will wait for thee: for thou didst make all these.

Jeremiah 2:31

O generation, see ye the word of Jehovah. Was I the desert to Israel? If a land of thick darkness? wherefore said my people, We had dominion, we will come no more to thee?

Jeremiah 2:4

Hear ye the word of Jehovah, O house of Jacob, and the families of the house of Israel:

Jeremiah 8:19

Behold the voice of the cry for help of the daughter of my people from the land of those being far off: is not Jehovah in Zion? or her king not in her? wherefore did they irritate me with their carved images, with strange vanities?

Ezekiel 11:15

Son of man, thy brethren, thy brethren, the men of thy kin, and all the house of Israel, wholly, which the inhabitants of Jerusalem said to them, Go ye far off from Jehovah; to us this land was given for a possession.

Ezekiel 14:5

So that taking the house of Israel in their heart, which were all of them separated from me by their blocks.

Jonah 2:8

They watching the vanities of falsehood will forsake their kindness.

Matthew 15:8

This people draw near me with their mouth, and honour me with their lips; but their heart keeps off far from me.

Acts 14:15

And saying, Men, why do ye these things? We also are men of similar passions with you, announcing good news to turn you back from these vanities to the living God, who made heaven, and earth, and sea, and all in them:

Romans 1:21

Wherefore having known God, not as God did they honour or return thanks; but were rendered vain in their conversations, and their heart without understanding was darkened.

Deuteronomy 32:21

They made me jealous with not God; They irritated me with their vanities: And I will make them jealous with not a people; With a foolish nation will I irritate them.

1 Samuel 12:21

And ye shall not turn aside: for after vanities which will not profit, and they will not deliver, for they are vanities.