Jeremiah 16:11

New American Bible - revised edition

you shall answer them: It is because your ancestors have forsaken me—oracle of the Lord—and followed other gods that they served and worshiped; but me they have forsaken, and my law they did not keep.

Cross References

1 Kings 9:9

And the answer will come: “Because they abandoned the Lord, their God, who brought their ancestors out of the land of Egypt, and they embraced other gods, bowing down to them and serving them. That is why the Lord has brought upon them all this evil.” After Building the Temple.

2 Chronicles 7:22

And the answer will come: “Because they abandoned the Lord, the God of their ancestors, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and they embraced other gods, bowing down to them and serving them. That is why he has brought upon them all this evil.”

Jeremiah 13:22

If you say to yourself: “Why have these things happened to me?” For your great guilt your skirts are stripped away and you are violated.

Jeremiah 2:8

The priests did not ask, “Where is the Lord?” The experts in the law did not know me: the shepherds rebelled against me. The prophets prophesied by Baal, and went after useless idols.

Jeremiah 22:9

And they will be told: “Because they have deserted their covenant with the Lord, their God, by worshiping and serving other gods.”

Jeremiah 44:3

because of the evil they did to provoke me, going after other gods, offering incense and serving other gods they did not know, neither they, nor you, nor your ancestors.

Jeremiah 8:2

and spread out before the sun, the moon, and the whole host of heaven, which they loved and served, which they followed, consulted, and worshiped. They will not be gathered up for burial, but will lie like dung upon the ground.

Jeremiah 9:14

therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: See now, I will give this people wormwood to eat and poisoned water to drink.

Lamentations 5:7

Our ancestors, who sinned, are no more; but now we bear their guilt.

Ezekiel 11:21

But as for those whose hearts are devoted to their atrocities and abominations, I will bring their conduct down upon their heads—oracle of the Lord God.

Amos 2:4

Thus says the Lord: For three crimes of Judah, and now four— I will not take it back— Because they spurned the instruction of the Lord, and did not keep his statutes; Because the lies which their ancestors followed have led them astray,

Malachi 3:7

Since the days of your ancestors you have turned aside from my statutes and have not kept them. Return to me, that I may return to you, says the Lord of hosts. But you say, “Why should we return?”

1 Peter 4:3

For the time that has passed is sufficient for doing what the Gentiles like to do: living in debauchery, evil desires, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and wanton idolatry.

Judges 2:11

the Israelites did what was evil in the sight of the Lord. They served the Baals,