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Jeremiah 2:11

New American Bible - revised edition

Does any other nation change its gods?— even though they are not gods at all! But my people have changed their glory for useless things.

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For they have forsaken me and have bowed down to Astarte, goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh, god of Moab, and Milcom, god of the Ammonites. They have not walked in my ways or done what is right in my eyes, according to my statutes and my ordinances, as David his father did.

Meanwhile, the messenger of the Lord said to Elijah the Tishbite: Go and meet the messengers of Samaria’s king, and tell them: “Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are going to inquire of Baalzebub, the god of Ekron?”

Have you not expelled the priests of the Lord, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and made for yourselves priests like the peoples of other lands? Everyone who comes to consecrate himself with a young bull and seven rams becomes a priest of no-gods.

They exchanged their glory for the image of a grass-eating bull.

Their idols are silver and gold, the work of human hands.

How many say of me, “There is no salvation for him in God.” Selah

They gave their gods to the fire —they were not gods at all, but the work of human hands— Wood and stone, they destroyed them.

Can human beings make for themselves gods? But these are not gods at all!

Therefore thus says the Lord: Ask among the nations— who has ever heard the like? Truly horrible things virgin Israel has done!

thus says the Lord: What fault did your ancestors find in me that they withdrew from me, Went after emptiness, and became empty themselves?

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.

Why should I pardon you? Your children have forsaken me, they swear by gods that are no gods. I fed them, but they commit adultery; to the prostitute’s house they throng.

in order to catch the hearts of the house of Israel, estranged from me because of all their idols.

Therefore, thus says the Lord God: Because you have caused more uproar than the nations surrounding you, not living by my statutes nor carrying out my judgments, nor even living by the ordinances of the surrounding nations;

Though all the peoples walk, each in the name of its god, We will walk in the name of the Lord, our God, forever and ever.

and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for the likeness of an image of mortal man or of birds or of four-legged animals or of snakes.

So about the eating of meat sacrificed to idols: we know that “there is no idol in the world,” and that “there is no God but one.”

At a time when you did not know God, you became slaves to things that by nature are not gods;

With strange gods they incited him, with abominations provoked him to anger.

Since they have incited me with a “no-god,” and provoked me with their empty idols, I will incite them with a “no-people”; with a foolish nation I will provoke them.

Happy are you, Israel! Who is like you, a people delivered by the Lord, Your help and shield, and the sword of your glory. Your enemies cringe before you; you stride upon their backs.

realizing that you were ransomed from your futile conduct, handed on by your ancestors, not with perishable things like silver or gold

She named the child Ichabod, saying, “Gone is the glory from Israel,” referring to the capture of the ark of God and to her father-in-law and her husband.




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