Jeremiah 2:5

World Messianic Bible British Edition

The LORD says, “What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after worthless vanity, and have become worthless?

Cross References

2 Kings 17:15

They rejected his statutes and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified to them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom the LORD had commanded them that they should not do like them.

Psalm 115:8

Those who make them will be like them; yes, everyone who trusts in them.

Isaiah 29:13

The Lord said, “Because this people draws near with their mouth and honours me with their lips, but they have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught;

Isaiah 44:9

Everyone who makes a carved image is vain. The things that they delight in will not profit. Their own witnesses don’t see, nor know, that they may be disappointed.

Isaiah 46:12

Listen to me, you stubborn-hearted, who are far from righteousness!

Jeremiah 10:8

But they are together brutish and foolish, instructed by idols! It is just wood.

Jeremiah 12:2

You have planted them. Yes, they have taken root. They grow. Yes, they produce fruit. You are near in their mouth, and far from their heart.

Jeremiah 14:22

Are there any amongst the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? Or can the sky give showers? Aren’t you he, the LORD our God? Therefore we will wait for you; for you have made all these things.

Jeremiah 2:31

Generation, consider the LORD’s word. Have I been a wilderness to Israel? Or a land of thick darkness? Why do my people say, ‘We have broken loose. We will come to you no more’?

Jeremiah 2:4

Hear the LORD’s word, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel!

Jeremiah 8:19

Behold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land that is very far off: “Isn’t the LORD in Zion? Isn’t her King in her?” “Why have they provoked me to anger with their engraved images, and with foreign idols?”

Ezekiel 11:15

“Son of man, your brothers, even your brothers, the men of your relatives, and all the house of Israel, all of them, are the ones to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, ‘Go far away from the LORD. This land has been given to us for a possession.’

Ezekiel 14:5

that I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.”’

Jonah 2:8

Those who regard vain idols forsake their own mercy.

Matthew 15:8

‘These people draw near to me with their mouth, and honour me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.

Acts 14:15

“Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men of the same nature as you, and bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things to the living God, who made the sky, the earth, the sea, and all that is in them;

Romans 1:21

Because knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, and didn’t give thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.

Deuteronomy 32:21

They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God. They have provoked me to anger with their vanities. I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people. I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

1 Samuel 12:21

Don’t turn away to go after vain things which can’t profit or deliver, for they are vain.