Jeremiah 2:11

New Living Translation

Has any nation ever traded its gods for new ones, even though they are not gods at all? Yet my people have exchanged their glorious God for worthless idols!

Cross References

1 Kings 11:33

For Solomon has abandoned me and worshiped Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Sidonians; Chemosh, the god of Moab; and Molech, the god of the Ammonites. He has not followed my ways and done what is pleasing in my sight. He has not obeyed my decrees and regulations as David his father did.

2 Kings 1:3

But the angel of the Lord told Elijah, who was from Tishbe, “Go and confront the messengers of the king of Samaria and ask them, ‘Is there no God in Israel? Why are you going to Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, to ask whether the king will recover?

2 Chronicles 13:9

But you have chased away the priests of the Lord (the descendants of Aaron) and the Levites, and you have appointed your own priests, just like the pagan nations. You let anyone become a priest these days! Whoever comes to be dedicated with a young bull and seven rams can become a priest of these so-called gods of yours!

Psalm 106:20

They traded their glorious God for a statue of a grass-eating bull.

Psalm 115:4

Their idols are merely things of silver and gold, shaped by human hands.

Psalm 3:3

But you, O Lord, are a shield around me; you are my glory, the one who holds my head high.

Isaiah 37:19

And they have thrown the gods of these nations into the fire and burned them. But of course the Assyrians could destroy them! They were not gods at all—only idols of wood and stone shaped by human hands.

Jeremiah 16:20

Can people make their own gods? These are not real gods at all!”

Jeremiah 18:13

So this is what the Lord says: “Has anyone ever heard of such a thing, even among the pagan nations? My virgin daughter Israel has done something terrible!

Jeremiah 2:5

This is what the Lord says: “What did your ancestors find wrong with me that led them to stray so far from me? They worshiped worthless idols, only to become worthless themselves.

Jeremiah 2:8

The priests did not ask, ‘Where is the Lord?’ Those who taught my word ignored me, the rulers turned against me, and the prophets spoke in the name of Baal, wasting their time on worthless idols.

Jeremiah 5:7

“How can I pardon you? For even your children have turned from me. They have sworn by gods that are not gods at all! I fed my people until they were full. But they thanked me by committing adultery and lining up at the brothels.

Ezekiel 14:5

I will do this to capture the minds and hearts of all my people who have turned from me to worship their detestable idols.’

Ezekiel 5:7

“Therefore, this is what the Sovereign Lord says: You people have behaved worse than your neighbors and have refused to obey my decrees and regulations. You have not even lived up to the standards of the nations around you.

Micah 4:5

Though the nations around us follow their idols, we will follow the Lord our God forever and ever.

Romans 1:23

And instead of worshiping the glorious, ever-living God, they worshiped idols made to look like mere people and birds and animals and reptiles.

1 Corinthians 8:4

So, what about eating meat that has been offered to idols? Well, we all know that an idol is not really a god and that there is only one God.

Galatians 4:8

Before you Gentiles knew God, you were slaves to so-called gods that do not even exist.

Deuteronomy 32:16

They stirred up his jealousy by worshiping foreign gods; they provoked his fury with detestable deeds.

Deuteronomy 32:21

They have roused my jealousy by worshiping things that are not God; they have provoked my anger with their useless idols. Now I will rouse their jealousy through people who are not even a people; I will provoke their anger through the foolish Gentiles.

Deuteronomy 33:29

How blessed you are, O Israel! Who else is like you, a people saved by the Lord? He is your protecting shield and your triumphant sword! Your enemies will cringe before you, and you will stomp on their backs!”

1 Peter 1:18

For you know that God paid a ransom to save you from the empty life you inherited from your ancestors. And it was not paid with mere gold or silver, which lose their value.

1 Samuel 4:21

She named the child Ichabod (which means “Where is the glory?”), for she said, “Israel’s glory is gone.” She named him this because the Ark of God had been captured and because her father-in-law and husband were dead.