Jeremiah 2:5

Modern King James Version

So says Jehovah, What injustice 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

And they rejected His statutes and His covenant which He made with their fathers, and His testimonies which He testified against them. And they went after the vain thing, and became vain, and after the nations around them, concerning whom Jehovah had charged them not to do like them.

Romans 1:21

Because, knowing God, they did not glorify Him as God, neither were thankful. But they became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

Jonah 2:8

They who take heed to lying vanities forsake their kindness;

Psalm 115:8

The ones who make them are like them, and everyone who trusts in them.

Isaiah 44:9

Those who make a graven image are all of them vanity; and the things in which they delight shall not help; and they are their own witnesses. They do not see nor know, that they may be ashamed.

1 Samuel 12:21

And do not turn aside to go after vanities, which cannot profit nor deliver. For they are vain.

Deuteronomy 32:21

They have moved Me to jealousy with a no-god. They have provoked Me to anger with their vanities. And I will move them to jealousy with a no-people. I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

Acts 14:15

and saying, Men, why do you do these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and preaching the gospel to you to turn you from these vanities to the living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea, and all things in them;

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 freely; we will come no more to You?

Matthew 15:8

"This people draws near to Me with their mouth, and honors Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me.

Ezekiel 11:15

Son of man, your brothers, even your brothers, the men of your kindred, and all the house of Israel, all that have heard the inhabitants of Jerusalem saying to all of them, Go far away from Jehovah; this land is given to us for a possession.

Jeremiah 14:22

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

Jeremiah 12:2

You have planted them; yea, they take root. They grow, yea, they make fruit. You are near in their mouth and far from their reins.

Jeremiah 10:8

But they are all at once foolish and animal-like; the tree is an example of vanities.

Isaiah 29:13

And Jehovah said, Because this people draw near Me with their mouth, and with their lips honor Me, but have removed their heart far from Me, and their fear toward Me is taught by the command of men;

Isaiah 46:12

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

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 far country. Is not Jehovah in Zion? Is not her King in her? Why have they provoked Me with their graven images, with foreign vanities?

Ezekiel 14:5

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