Jeremiah 16:11

The Passion Translation

Answer them, ‘Because your ancestors walked away from me, declares Yahweh, and followed other gods and served and worshiped them. They abandoned me and failed to keep my instruction.

Cross References

Jeremiah 13:22

And when you ask yourself, “Why are these things happening to me?”— it is because your sin was so enormous that your skirts are lifted up and your private parts exposed.

Jeremiah 2:8

The priests did not stop and ask, ‘Where is Yahweh?’ The scribal scholars did not intimately know me. The shepherds of the people rebelled against me. The false prophets prophesied by the spirit of Baal, and they worshiped idols that could not help them.

Jeremiah 22:9

the reply will be, ‘Because they forsook the covenant with Yahweh their God and worshiped and served other gods.’ ”

Jeremiah 44:3

This disaster came to your people because of their evil deeds; they have worshiped foreign gods, which they have previously known nothing about nor have their ancestors. They have brought them offerings and provoked my anger.

Jeremiah 8:2

They will spread them out before the sun and the moon and all the stars of heaven, which they loved and served. They went after cosmic powers, inquired of them, bowed down before them in adoration, and worshiped them. Because they did these things, their bones will not be buried but will become fertilizer for the ground.

Jeremiah 9:14

Instead, they stubbornly followed their hearts’ desires and chased after the Baals, just like their ancestors taught them.

Lamentations 5:7

Our ancestors sinned, and they are no more; and now we suffer their punishment.

Ezekiel 11:21

But I will punish those whose hearts are devoted to their filthy idols and detestable practices. I will repay them for their conduct, declares Lord Yahweh.’ ”

1 Peter 4:3

For you have already spent enough time doing what unbelievers love to do—living in debauchery, sensuality, partying, drunkenness, wild drinking parties, and the worship of demons.

Judges 2:11

The Israelites did what was evil in the sight of Yahweh and worshiped the images of Baal.