Jeremiah 2:5

Modern English Version

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?

Cross References

2 Kings 17:15

They rejected His statutes and His covenant that He had made with their fathers and the decrees He had given them. They followed idols, and became idolaters, and followed the surrounding nations, concerning whom the Lord commanded them, that they should not do like them.

Psalm 115:8

Those who make them are like them; so is everyone who trusts in them.

Isaiah 29:13

Therefore, the Lord said: Because this people draw near with their mouths and honor Me with their lips, but have removed their hearts far from Me, and their fear toward Me is tradition by the precept of men,

Isaiah 44:9

Those who make a graven image are, all of them, vain, and their delectable things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they do not see or know, that they may be ashamed.

Isaiah 46:12

Listen to Me, you stubborn-hearted, who are far from righteousness;

Jeremiah 10:8

But they are altogether unthinking and foolish; the wooden idol is worthless instruction.

Jeremiah 12:2

You have planted them; indeed, they have taken root; they grow; indeed, they bring forth fruit. You are near in their mouth, but far from their mind.

Jeremiah 14:22

Are there any among the idols of the nations that can cause rain? Or can the heavens give showers? Is it not You, O  Lord our God? Therefore, we will wait upon You, for You have done all these things.

Jeremiah 2:31

O generation, consider the word of the Lord: Have I been a wilderness to Israel? A land of darkness? Why do My people say, “We are free to roam. We will come no more to You”?

Jeremiah 2:4

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

Jeremiah 8:19

Behold, the cry of the daughter of my people from a far country: “Is not the Lord in Zion? Is not her king in her?” “Why have they provoked Me to anger with their graven images, with foreign vanities?”

Ezekiel 11:15

Son of man, your brothers, your kindred, your fellow captives, and all the house of Israel, all of them, are they to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, “Go far from the Lord. This land has been given to us as a possession.”

Ezekiel 14:5

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

Jonah 2:8

“Those who follow vain idols forsake their true loyalty.

Matthew 15:8

‘These people draw near to Me with their mouth, and honor Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me.

Acts 14:15

“Men, why are you doing this? We also are men, of like nature with you, preaching to you to turn from these vain things to the living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea, and everything that is in them,

Romans 1:21

Because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him or give thanks to Him as God, but became futile in their imaginations, and their foolish hearts were darkened.

Deuteronomy 32:21

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.

1 Samuel 12:21

But do not turn aside, for then you would be going after empty things which cannot profit or deliver, for they are nothing.