Jeremiah 2:5

King James 3 - The Literal Traslation

So says Jehovah, What iniquity have your fathers found in Me, that they went far from Me and have walked after vanity, and have become vain?

Cross References

2 Kings 17:15

And they rejected His statutes and His covenant that He made with their fathers, and His testimonies that He testified against them, and went after the vain thing, and became vain, and after the nations that were around them, of whom Jehovah had commanded them not to act like them.

Psalm 115:8

The ones who make them are like them, so is everyone trusting in them.

Isaiah 29:13

And the Lord says, Because this people draws near with its mouth, and they honor Me with its lips; but its heart is far from Me, and their fear of Me is taught the commandment by men;

Isaiah 44:9

Those who form a carved image are all of them vanity. And their delights do not profit; and they are their own witnesses. They do not see, and not do know, that they may be ashamed.

Isaiah 46:12

Listen to Me, mighty ones of heart who are far from righteousness:

Jeremiah 10:8

But they are at once being foolish and being stupid; their tree is an instruction of vanities.

Jeremiah 12:2

You planted them; yea, they take root, they go on, they even make fruit. You are near in their mouth, and far from their kidneys.

Jeremiah 14:22

Among the vanities of the nations are there any who make rain fall? Or can the heavens give showers? Is it not You, O Jehovah our God? Therefore we will wait for You; for You do all these.

Jeremiah 2:31

O generation, see the Word of Jehovah. Have I been a wilderness to Israel, or a land of darkness? Why do My people say, We roam; we will come no more to You.

Jeremiah 2:4

Hear the Word of Jehovah, O house of Jacob and all the families of the house of Israel.

Jeremiah 8:19

Behold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a distant land! Is not Jehovah in Zion? Or is not her king in her? Why have they provoked Me with their graven images, with foreign vanities?

Ezekiel 11:15

Son of man, your brothers, your brothers, the men of your kindred, and all the house of Israel, all of them who have said to those living in Jerusalem, Go far away from Jehovah, this land is given to us for a possession.

Ezekiel 14:5

so that I may capture the house of Israel in their own heart, who are estranged from Me by their idols, all of them.

Jonah 2:8

Those who pay heed to vanities of idolatry forsake their mercy;

Matthew 15:8

“This people draws near to Me with their mouth, and with the lips honor Me; but their heart holds far away from Me.

Acts 14:15

and saying, Men, why do you do these things? We also are men of like feelings to you, preaching the gospel to you to turn you from these vain things to the living God, who “made the heaven and the earth and the sea, and all the things in them,” Ex. 20:11

Romans 1:21

Because knowing God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful. But they became vain in their reasonings, and their undiscerning heart was darkened.

Deuteronomy 32:21

They made Me jealous with a no-god; they made Me angry by their vanities; and I shall make them jealous by a no-people; by a foolish nation I shall make them angry.

1 Samuel 12:21

And do not turn aside to go after vanities which do not profit and do not deliver, for they are vanities.