Jeremiah 12:2

New American Standard Bible 2020

You have planted them, they have also taken root; They grow, they have also produced fruit. You are near to their lips But far from their mind.

Cross References

Job 24:12

“From the city people groan, And the souls of the wounded cry for help; Yet God does not pay attention to the offensiveness.

Job 5:3

“I have seen the fool taking root, And I cursed his home immediately.

Psalm 37:35

¶I have seen a wicked, violent person Spreading himself like a luxuriant tree in its native soil.

Isaiah 29:13

Then the Lord said, “Because this people approaches Me with their words And honors Me with their lips, But their heart is far away from Me, And their reverence for Me consists of the commandment of men that is taught;

Jeremiah 11:17

The Lord of armies, who planted you, has pronounced evil against you because of the evil of the house of Israel and the house of Judah, which they have done to provoke Me by offering sacrifices to Baal.

Jeremiah 3:10

Yet in spite of all this her treacherous sister Judah did not return to Me with all her heart, but rather in deception,” declares the Lord.

Jeremiah 45:4

This is what you are to say to him: ‘This is what the Lord says: “Behold, what I have built I am going to tear down, and what I have planted I am going to uproot, that is, all the people of the land.”

Ezekiel 33:31

And they come to you as people come, and sit before you as My people and hear your words, but they do not do them; for they do the lustful desires expressed by their mouth, and their heart follows their unlawful gain.

Hosea 7:14

And they do not cry to Me from their heart When they wail on their beds; For the sake of grain and new wine they assemble themselves, They turn against Me.

Habakkuk 1:13

Your eyes are too pure to look at evil, And You cannot look at harm favorably. Why do You look favorably At those who deal treacherously? Why are You silent when the wicked swallow up Those more righteous than they?

Matthew 15:8

‘This people honors Me with their lips, But their heart is far away from Me.

Mark 7:6

But He said to them, “Rightly did Isaiah prophesy about you hypocrites, as it is written: ‘This people honors Me with their lips, But their heart is far away from Me.

Titus 1:16

They profess to know God, but by their deeds they deny Him, being detestable and disobedient and worthless for any good deed.