Jeremiah 2:5

Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spelling

The Lord saith these things, What of wickedness found your fathers in me, for they went far away from me, and went after vanity, and were made vain?

Cross References

2 Kings 17:15

And they casted away the lawful things of him, and the covenant that he covenanted with their fathers, and the witnessings by which he witnessed to them; and they pursued [or followed] vanities, that is, idols, and did vainly; and pursued [or followed] heathen men, that were about them; of which things the Lord commanded to them, that they should not do as also those heathen men did.

Psalm 115:8

They that make those simulacra be made like those [or them]; and all that trust in them.

Isaiah 29:13

And the Lord said, For that this people nigheth with their mouth, and glorifieth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me; and they dreaded me for the commandment and teachings of men,

Isaiah 44:9

All the formers of an idol be nothing, and the most loved things of them shall not profit; they be witnesses of them, that they see not, neither understand, that they be shamed.

Isaiah 46:12

Ye of hard heart, hear me, that be far from rightfulness [or rightwiseness].

Jeremiah 10:8

They shall be proved unwise and fools together; the teaching of their vanity is a tree.

Jeremiah 12:2

Thou hast planted them, and they sent root; they increase, and make fruit; thou art nigh to the mouth of them, and far from the reins of them.

Jeremiah 14:22

Whether in graven images of heathen men be they that rain, either heavens may give rains? whether thou art not our Lord God, whom we abided? For thou madest all these things.

Jeremiah 2:31

See ye the word of the Lord, whether I am made a wilderness to Israel, either a land late bringing forth fruit? Why therefore said my people, We have gone away, we shall no more come to thee?

Jeremiah 2:4

The house of Jacob, and all the lineages of the house of Israel, hear ye the word of the Lord.

Jeremiah 8:19

And lo! the voice of cry of the daughter of my people cometh from a far land. Whether the Lord is not in Zion, either the king thereof is not therein? Why therefore stirred they me to wrathfulness [or to wrath] by their graven images, and by alien vanities?

Ezekiel 11:15

Son of man, thy brethren, thy brethren, thy kinsmen, and all the house of Israel, and all men, to whom the dwellers of Jerusalem said, Go ye away far from the Lord, the land is given to us into possession.

Ezekiel 14:5

that the house of Israel be taken in their heart, by which they went away from me in all their idols.

Jonah 2:8

They that keep vanities, forsake their mercy idly.

Matthew 15:8

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

Acts 14:15

and said, Men, what do ye this thing? and we be deadly men like you, and show to you, that ye be converted from these vain things to the living God, that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that be in them;

Romans 1:21

For when they had known God, they glorified him not as God, neither did thankings; but they vanished in their thoughts, and the unwise heart of them was darked [or made dark].

Deuteronomy 32:21

They have stirred me to wrath in worshipping him that was not God, and they have moved me to vengeance in their vain idols; and I shall stir them in him, that is not a people, and I shall stir them to ire in a fond [or foolish] folk.

1 Samuel 12:21

and do not ye bow after vain things, that shall not profit you, neither they shall deliver you; for those [or they] be vain things.