Jeremiah 2:5

New American Bible - revised edition

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

Cross References

2 Kings 17:15

They rejected his statutes, the covenant he had made with their ancestors, and the warnings he had given them. They followed emptiness and became empty; they followed the surrounding nations whom the Lord had commanded them not to imitate.

Psalm 115:8

Their makers will be like them, and anyone who trusts in them.

Isaiah 29:13

The Lord said: Since this people draws near with words only and honors me with their lips alone, though their hearts are far from me, And fear of me has become mere precept of human teaching,

Isaiah 44:9

Those who fashion idols are all nothing; their precious works are of no avail. They are their witnesses: they see nothing, know nothing, and so they are put to shame.

Isaiah 46:12

Listen to me, you fainthearted, far from the victory of justice:

Jeremiah 10:8

One and all they are stupid and senseless, the instruction from nonentities—only wood!

Jeremiah 12:2

You planted them; they have taken root, they flourish and bear fruit as well. You are upon their lips, but far from their thoughts.

Jeremiah 14:22

Among the idols of the nations are there any that give rain? Or can the mere heavens send showers? Is it not you, Lord, our God, to whom we look? You alone do all these things.

Jeremiah 2:31

You people of this generation, consider the word of the Lord: Have I become a wilderness to Israel, a land of gloom? Why then do my people say, “We have moved on, we will not come to you any more”?

Jeremiah 2:4

Listen to the word of the Lord, house of Jacob! All you clans of the house of Israel,

Jeremiah 8:19

Listen! the cry of the daughter of my people, far and wide in the land! “Is the Lord no longer in Zion, is her King no longer in her midst?” Why do they provoke me with their idols, with their foreign nonentities?

Ezekiel 11:15

Son of man, the inhabitants of Jerusalem are saying about all your relatives, the other exiles, and all the house of Israel, “They are far away from the Lord. The land is given to us as a possession.”

Ezekiel 14:5

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

Jonah 2:8

When I became faint, I remembered the Lord; My prayer came to you in your holy temple.

Matthew 15:8

‘This people honors me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me;

Acts 14:15

“Men, why are you doing this? We are of the same nature as you, human beings. We proclaim to you good news that you should turn from these idols to the living God, ‘who made heaven and earth and sea and all that is in them.’

Romans 1:21

for although they knew God they did not accord him glory as God or give him thanks. Instead, they became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless minds were darkened.

Deuteronomy 32:21

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.

1 Samuel 12:21

Do not turn aside to gods who are nothing, who cannot act and deliver. They are nothing.