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Jeremiah 2:11

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Has a nation changed their gods, though they are not gods? But My people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.

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because they have forsaken Me and have worshipped Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Sidonians, and Chemosh, the god of the Moabites, and Molech, the god of the Ammonites and have not walked in My ways and have not done that which is right in My eyes, to keep My statutes and judgments, as his father David had done.

But the angel of the Lord said to Elijah the Tishbite, “Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say to them, ‘Is it because there is not a God in Israel, that you go to inquire of Baal-Zebub the god of Ekron?’

Have you all not driven out the priests of the Lord, even the Levites and sons of Aaron, and made for yourselves priests from the peoples of other lands? Whoever comes to be dedicated and has in his hand a young bull or seven rams becomes a priest to what is not a god.

Thus they exchanged their glory for the image of an ox that eats grass.

Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.

But You, O  Lord, are a shield for me, my glory, and the One who lifts up my head.

and have cast their gods into the fire, for they were not gods, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone. Therefore, they have destroyed them.

Shall a man make gods for himself, which are not gods?

Therefore thus says the Lord: Ask now among the nations, who has heard such things? The virgin of Israel has done a very horrible thing.

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

The priests did not say, “Where is the Lord?” And those who handle the law did not know Me; the shepherds also transgressed against Me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal and walked after things that do not profit.

How shall I pardon you for this? Your children have forsaken Me and sworn by those who are not gods. When I had fed them to the full, then they committed adultery and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots’ houses.

in order to seize the heart of the house of Israel who are estranged from Me through all their idols.

“Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because you have more turmoil than the nations that are round about you and have not walked in My statutes, or have kept My judgments, and have not even acted according to the judgments of the nations that are all around you,

For all the peoples walk, each in the name of its god, but we will walk in the name of the Lord our God forever and ever.

They changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man, birds, four-footed beasts, and creeping things.

So concerning the eating of foods that are offered in sacrifice to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one.

Previously, when you did not know God, you served those who by nature are not gods.

They made Him jealous with strange gods; with abominations they provoked Him to anger.

They have made Me jealous with that which is not God; they have provoked Me to anger with their empty things. And I will make them jealous of those who are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

Blessed are you, O Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by the Lord, the shield of your help, who is the sword of your majesty! Your enemies will cringe before you, and you will tread upon their high places.

For you know that you were not redeemed from your vain way of life inherited from your fathers with perishable things, like silver or gold,

She named the child Ichabod, saying, “The glory is departed from Israel,” because the ark of God was taken, and because of her father-in-law and her husband.




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