Jeremiah 2:5

Tree of Life Version

Thus says Adonai: “What fault did your fathers find in Me that they strayed so far from Me? They walked after worthless things, becoming worthless themselves?

Cross References

2 Kings 17:15

So they rejected His statutes and His covenant that He had made with their fathers, and His testimonies that He testified against them. Instead they went after futile things and became futile, following the nations that surrounded them, about whom Adonai had charged them not to emulate.

Psalm 115:8

Those making them will become like them —everyone trusting in them.

Isaiah 29:13

So Adonai says, “Since these people draw near with their mouths and honor Me with their lips, yet their hearts are far from Me, and their fear of Me is a mitzvah taught by men.

Isaiah 44:9

Those who fashion idols are empty. Their precious things do not profit. Their witnesses do not see or know, so they will be put to shame.

Isaiah 46:12

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

Jeremiah 10:8

They are totally stupid and foolish. Discipline is useless—it’s wood!

Jeremiah 12:2

You planted them, so they have taken root. They are growing, bearing fruit. You are near in their mouth, yet far from their mind.

Jeremiah 14:22

Can any of the idols of the nations bring rain? Or can the skies grant showers? Is it not You, Adonai our God? Do we not wait for You? For You have done all these things.

Jeremiah 2:31

You, generation, heed Adonai’s word! “Have I been a wilderness to Israel or a land of thick darkness? Why do My people say, ‘We are free to roam. We won’t come to You any more’?

Jeremiah 2:4

Hear the word of Adonai, O house of Jacob and all the families of the house of Israel.

Jeremiah 8:19

Listen, the sound of the cry of the daughter of my people —a voice from a distant land— “Is Adonai no longer in Zion? Is her King no longer in her?” “Why have they provoked Me with their graven images, with foreign idols?”

Ezekiel 11:15

“Son of man, as for your kinsmen, your kinsmen, fellow exiles and the whole house of Israel—all of them—are those about whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem said, ‘Keep far away from Adonai! This land has been given to us for a possession!’”

Ezekiel 14:5

so I may take hold of the house of Israel in their hearts. For they have all become estranged from Me through their idols.’”

Jonah 2:8

As my soul was fading from me, I remembered Adonai and my prayer came to You, toward Your holy Temple.

Matthew 15:8

‘This people honors Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me.

Acts 14:15

and saying, “Men, why are you doing these things? We too are human, just like you! We proclaim the Good News to you, telling you to turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all that is in them.

Romans 1:21

for even though they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God or give Him thanks. Instead, their thinking became futile, and their senseless hearts were made dark.

Deuteronomy 32:21

They made Me jealous with a non-god. They vexed Me with airy idols. So I will make them jealous with a non-people. With a foolish nation I will vex them.

1 Samuel 12:21

Do not turn aside to go after empty things that cannot profit or deliver, for they are futile.