Jeremiah 12:2

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

Thou plantest them, and they take root; they grow and bring forth fruit; thou art near in their mouth and far from their heart.

Cross References

Job 24:12

From out of the city the dying groan, and the soul of the wounded cries for help; yet God pays no attention to their prayer.

Job 5:3

I have seen the fool taking root, but suddenly I cursed his dwelling.

Psalm 37:35

I have seen a wicked man overbearing, and towering like a cedar of Lebanon.

Isaiah 29:13

And the Lord said: “Because this people draw near with their mouth and honor me with their lips, while their hearts are far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men learned by rote;

Jeremiah 11:17

The Lord of hosts, who planted you, has pronounced evil against you, because of the evil which the house of Israel and the house of Judah have done, provoking me to anger by burning incense to Baal.”

Jeremiah 3:10

Yet for all this her false sister Judah did not return to me with her whole heart, but in pretense, says the Lord.”

Jeremiah 45:4

Thus shall you say to him, Thus says the Lord: Behold, what I have built I am breaking down, and what I have planted I am plucking up—that is, the whole land.

Ezekiel 33:31

And they come to you as people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear what you say but they will not do it; for with their lips they show much love, but their heart is set on their gain.

Hosea 7:14

They do not cry to me from the heart, but they wail upon their beds; for grain and wine they gash themselves, they rebel against me.

Habakkuk 1:13

Thou who art of purer eyes than to behold evil and canst not look on wrong, why dost thou look on faithless men, and art silent when the wicked swallows up the man more righteous than he?

Matthew 15:8

‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me;

Mark 7:6

And he said to them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, ‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me;

Titus 1:16

They profess to know God, but they deny him by their deeds; they are detestable, disobedient, unfit for any good deed.