Jeremiah 2:5

The Scriptures 1998

Thus said יהוה, “What unrighteousness have your fathers found in Me, that they have gone far from Me, and went after worthlessness, and became worthless?

Cross References

2 Kings 17:15

and rejected His laws and His covenant that He had made with their fathers, and His witnesses which He had witnessed against them, and went after worthlessness, and became worthless, and after the gentiles who were all around them, of whom יהוה  had commanded them not to do like them.

Romans 1:21

because, although they knew Elohim, they did not esteem Him as Elohim, nor gave thanks, but became vain in their reasonings, and their undiscerning heart was darkened.

Jonah 2:8

“Those observing false worthlessnesses forsake their own kindness.

Psalm 115:8

The ones who make them, shall become like them – All who trust in them.

Isaiah 44:9

Those who make an idol, all of them are emptiness, and their delights do not profit. And they are their own witnesses; they neither see nor know, so that they are put to shame.

1 Samuel 12:21

and do not turn aside after worthless matters which do not profit or deliver, for they are worthless.

Deuteronomy 32:21

“They made Me jealous by what is not Ě

Acts 14:15

and saying, “Men, why are you doing this? We also are men with the same nature as you, bringing to you the Good News: to turn from these worthless matters to the living Elohim, who made the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and all that is in them,

Jeremiah 2:31

“O generation, see the word of יהוה! Have I been a wilderness to Yisra’ĕ

Matthew 15:8

‘This people draw near to Me with their mouth, and respect Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me.

Ezekiel 11:15

“Son of man, your brothers, your relatives, your kinsmen, and all the house of Yisra’ĕ

Jeremiah 14:22

Are there among the worthless idols of the nations any causing rain? And do the heavens give showers? Are You not He, O יהוה  our Elohim? And we wait for You, for You are the One who does all this.

Jeremiah 12:2

You have planted them and they have taken root, they grow and they bear fruit. You are near in their mouth but far from their kidneys.

Jeremiah 10:8

They are both brutish and foolish, an instruction of worthlessness is the tree.

Isaiah 29:13

And יהוה  says, “Because this people has drawn near with its mouth, and with its lips they have esteemed Me, and it has kept its heart far from Me, and their fear of Me has become a command of men that is taught!

Isaiah 46:12

“Listen to Me, you stubborn-hearted, who are far from righteousness:

Jeremiah 2:4

Hear the word of יהוה, O house of Yaʽ

Jeremiah 8:19

Observe! The voice, the cry of the daughter of my people from a distant land, “Is יהוה  not in Tsiyon? Is her Sovereign not in her?” “Why have they provoked Me with their carved images, and with foreign worthlessnesses?”

Ezekiel 14:5

in order to lay hold of the house of Yisra’ĕ