Jeremiah 2:8

Modern English Version

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.

Cross References

1 Kings 18:22

Then Elijah said to the people, “I alone remain a prophet of the Lord, but Baal’s prophets number four hundred and fifty men.

1 Kings 18:29

And as midday passed, they prophesied until the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice. But there was no voice. No one answered; no one paid attention.

1 Kings 18:40

Elijah said to them, “Arrest the prophets of Baal, and do not let one of them escape.” And they arrested them, and Elijah brought them down to the Kishon brook and executed them there.

Job 35:10

But none says, ‘Where is God my maker, who gives songs in the night,

Isaiah 28:7

But they also have erred through wine and stagger from strong drink; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are confused by wine, they stagger from strong drink; they err while having visions, they stumble when rendering judgment.

Isaiah 29:10

For the Lord has poured out on you the spirit of deep sleep and has closed your eyes, the prophets; and He has covered your heads, the seers.

Isaiah 30:5

They all will be ashamed of a people who cannot profit them, who are not a help or profit, but a shame and also a reproach.

Jeremiah 10:21

For the shepherds have become unthinking and have not sought the Lord. Therefore they have not prospered, and all their flocks are scattered.

Jeremiah 12:10

Many shepherds have destroyed My vineyard; they have trodden My portion underfoot; they have made My pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.

Jeremiah 16:19

O  Lord, my strength and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the nations will come to You from the remote parts of the earth, and will say: Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things in which there is no profit.

Jeremiah 18:18

Then they said, “Come and let us devise plans against Jeremiah. For the law will not be lost from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.”

Jeremiah 2:11

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

Jeremiah 2:6

They did not say, “Where is the Lord who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through and where no man lived?”

Jeremiah 4:22

“For My people are foolish, they have not known Me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.”

Jeremiah 5:31

The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority; and My people love to have it so. Yet what will you do in the end?

Jeremiah 7:8

Behold, you trust in lying words that cannot profit.

Jeremiah 9:14

but have walked after the imagination of their own heart and after the Baals, which their fathers taught them.

Ezekiel 22:26

Her priests have violated My law and have profaned My holy things. They have made no distinction between the holy and profane, nor have they shown the difference between the unclean and the clean, and they have hidden their eyes from My Sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.

Ezekiel 34:2

Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy and say to those shepherds, Thus says the Lord God: Woe to the shepherds of Israel who feed themselves! Should not the shepherds feed the flock?

Hosea 4:6

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will reject you from being My priest. And because you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.

Habakkuk 2:18

What profit is a carved image when its maker has carved it, a cast image, and a teacher of lies, that its maker trusts in what he has shaped when he makes mute idols?

Matthew 16:26

For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

Luke 11:52

“Woe to you, lawyers! For you have taken away the key of knowledge. You did not enter yourselves, and you hindered those who were entering.”

John 16:3

They will do these things to you, because they have not known the Father nor Me.

John 8:55

Yet you have not known Him, but I know Him. If I say, ‘I do not know Him,’ I shall be a liar like you. But I know Him and keep His word.

2 Corinthians 4:2

But we have renounced the secret things of shame, not walking in craftiness nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by expressing the truth and commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.

Deuteronomy 33:10

They will teach Jacob Your judgments and Israel Your law. They will put incense before You and the whole burnt offerings on your altar.

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.

1 Samuel 2:12

Now the sons of Eli were corrupt. They did not know the Lord.