Jeremiah 2:8

New Messianic Version Bible

The priests said not, Where [is] the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate)? and they that handle the law knew me not: the pastors also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Ba’al [lord (a false god)], and walked after [things that] do not profit.

Cross References

Habakkuk 2:18

What profits the graven image that the maker thereof has graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusts in it, to make dumb idols?

Jeremiah 10:21

For the pastors are become cruel, and have not sought the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate): therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered.

Jeremiah 5:31

The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love [to have it] so: and what will you2f do in the end thereof?

2 Corinthians 4:2

But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God-The Father deceitfully; but by manifestation of the tcommending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God-The Father.

John 16:3

And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me.

Hosea 4:6

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because youi have rejected knowledge, I will also reject youi, that youi shall be no priest to me: seeing youi have forgotten the law of youri God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], I will also forget youri children.

John 8:55

Yet you2f have not known him; but I know him: and if I should say, I know him not, I shall be a liar like unto you: but I know him, and keep his saying.

Luke 11:52

Woe unto you, lawyers! for you2f have taken away the key of knowledge: you2f entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in you2f hindered.

Matthew 16:26

“What profit is there for a man if he should gain the whole world and lose his soul forever; what good exchange does a man make if, for present things that are spoiled, he should give his soul to the judgment of Gei-Hinnom [hell, valley of evil counsel]?”

Jeremiah 16:19

O Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto youi from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and [things] wherein [there is] no profit.

Jeremiah 12:10

Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trampled my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.

Jeremiah 7:8

Behold, you2f trust in lying words, that cannot profit.

Jeremiah 4:22

For my people [is] foolish, they have not known me; they [are] drunken children, and they have none understanding: they [are] wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

Jeremiah 2:11

Has a nation changed [their] gods, which [are] yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for [that which] does not profit.

Jeremiah 2:6

Neither said they, Where [is] the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) that brought us up out of the land of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place], that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?

Isaiah 30:5

They were all ashamed of a people [that] could not profit them, nor be an help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach (disgrace; shame).

Isaiah 29:10

For the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers has He covered.

Isaiah 28:7

But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallow (to approve, commend, accept)ed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble [in] judgment.

1 Kings 18:40

And Eliyahu [my God is Yehovah] said unto them, Take the prophets of Ba’al [lord (a false god)]; let not one of them escape. And they took them: and Eliyahu [my God is Yehovah] brought them down to the brook Kishon [Winding], and killed them there.

1 Kings 18:29

And it came to pass, when midday was past, and they prophesied until the [time] of the offering of the [evening] sacrifice, that [there was] neither voice, nor any to answer, nor any that regarded.

1 Kings 18:22

Then said Eliyahu [my God is Yehovah] unto the people, I, [even] I only, remain a prophet of the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); but Ba’al’s [lord (a false god)] prophets [are] four hundred and fifty men.

1 Samuel 12:21

And turn you2f not aside: for [then should you2f go] after vain [things], which cannot profit nor deliver; for they [are] vain.

1 Samuel 2:12

Now the sons of ‘Eli [ascension] [were] sons of Belial [Worthless, Good for Nothing]; they knew not the Lord-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

Deuteronomy 33:10

They shall teach Ya’akov [Heal of God] youi judgments, and Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] youi law: they shall put incense before youi, and whole burnt sacrifice upon youi altar.

Jeremiah 9:14

But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Ba’alim [lords (false gods)], which their fathers taught them:

Jeremiah 18:18

Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Yirmeyahu [whom Yehovah has appointed]; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.

Ezekiel 22:26

Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned my holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and Profane (treat as common; defile), neither have they showed [difference] between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my Shabbat, and I am profaned among them.

Ezekiel 34:2

Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], prophesy, and say unto them, Thus says the Lord-Adonai [Greatest Above All Things] GOD-Yehōvih (THE FATHER) unto the shepherds; Woe [be] to the shepherds of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] that do feed themselves! should not the shepherds feed the flocks?

Job 35:10

But none says, Where [is] God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] my maker, who gives songs in the night;