Jeremiah 2:5

Legacy Standard Bible

Thus says Yahweh, “What injustice did your fathers find in Me, That they went far from Me And walked after vanity and became vain?

Cross References

2 Kings 17:15

They also rejected His statutes and His covenant which He cut with their fathers and His warnings with which He warned them. And they followed vanity and became vain, and went after the nations which surrounded them, concerning which Yahweh had commanded them not to do like them.

Psalm 115:8

Those who make them will become like them, Everyone who trusts in them.

Isaiah 29:13

Then the Lord said, “Because this people draw near with their mouth And honor Me with their lips, But they remove their hearts far from Me, And their fear of Me is in the command of men learned by rote,

Isaiah 44:9

Those who form a graven image are all of them futile, and their desirable things are of no profit; even their own witnesses fail to see or know, so that they will be put to shame.

Isaiah 46:12

¶“Hear Me, you stubborn of heart, Who are far from righteousness.

Jeremiah 10:8

But they are altogether senseless and foolish; They are in a discipline of vanities—it is mere wood!

Jeremiah 12:2

You have planted them; they have also taken root; They grow; they have even produced fruit. You are near to their lips But far from their inmost being.

Jeremiah 14:22

Are there any among the idols of the nations who give rain? Or can the heavens give showers? Is it not You, O Yahweh our God? Therefore we hope in You, For You are the one who has done all these things.

Jeremiah 2:31

“O generation, behold the word of Yahweh. Have I been a wilderness to Israel Or a land of thick darkness? Why do My people say, ‘We are free to roam; We will no longer come to You’?

Jeremiah 2:4

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

Jeremiah 8:19

Behold, the sound! The cry of the daughter of my people from a distant land: “Is Yahweh not in Zion? Is her King not within her?” “Why have they provoked Me to anger with their graven images, with foreign idols?”

Ezekiel 11:15

“Son of man, your brothers, your relatives, your fellow exiles, and the whole house of Israel, all of them, are those to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, ‘Go far from Yahweh; this land has been given to us as a possession.’

Ezekiel 14:5

in order to seize the house of Israel by their heart, those who are estranged from Me through all their idols.” ’

Jonah 2:8

“Those who regard worthless idols Forsake their lovingkindness,

Matthew 15:8

‘This people honors Me with their lips, But their heart is far away from Me.

Acts 14:15

and saying, “Men, why are you doing these things? We are also men of the same nature as you, proclaiming the gospel to you that you should turn from these vain things to a living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all that is in them.

Romans 1:21

For even though they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish heart was darkened.

Deuteronomy 32:21

‘They have made Me jealous with what is not God; They have provoked Me to anger with their idols. So I will make them jealous with those who are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a wickedly foolish nation,

1 Samuel 12:21

And you must not turn aside, for then you would go after meaningless things which cannot profit and cannot deliver, because they are meaningless.