Jeremiah 2:11 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Has a nation ever exchanged its gods? (But they were not gods! ) Yet my people have exchanged their Glory for useless idols. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Has a nation [ever] changed its gods, even though they are not gods? But My people have changed their Glory [God] for that which does not profit. American Standard Version (1901) Hath a nation changed its gods, which yet are no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit. Common English Bible Has a nation switched gods, though they aren’t really gods at all? Yet my people have exchanged their glory for what has no value. Catholic Public Domain Version See if a nation has ever changed their gods, though certainly those are not gods. Yet truly, my people have exchanged their glory for an idol. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version If a nation hath changed their gods, and indeed they are not gods: but my people have changed their glory into an idol. |
For they have abandoned me; they have bowed down to Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Sidonians, to Chemosh, the god of Moab, and to Milcom, the god of the Ammonites. They have not walked in my ways to do what is right in my sight and to carry out my statutes and my judgements as his father David did.
But the angel of the Lord said to Elijah the Tishbite, ‘Go and meet the messengers of the king of Samaria and say to them, “Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are going to enquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron?
Didn’t you banish the priests of the Lord, the descendants of Aaron and the Levites, and make your own priests like the peoples of other lands do? Whoever comes to ordain himself with a young bull and seven rams may become a priest of what are not gods.
They have thrown their gods into the fire, for they were not gods but made from wood and stone by human hands. So they have destroyed them.
Therefore, this is what the Lord says: Ask among the nations, who has heard things like these? Virgin Israel has done a most horrible thing.
This is what the Lord says: What fault did your ancestors find in me that they went so far from me, followed worthless idols, and became worthless themselves?
The priests stopped asking, ‘Where is the Lord? ’ The experts in the law no longer knew me, and the rulers rebelled against me. The prophets prophesied by Baal and followed useless idols.
Why should I forgive you? Your children have abandoned me and sworn by those who are not gods. I satisfied their needs, yet they committed adultery; they gashed themselves at the prostitute’s house.
so that I may take hold of the house of Israel by their hearts. They are all estranged from me because of their idols.”
‘Therefore, this is what the Lord God says: Because you have been more insubordinate than the nations around you #– #you have not walked in my statutes or kept my ordinances; you have not even kept the ordinances of the nations around you #– #
Though all the peoples walk in the name of their own gods, we will walk in the name of the Lord our God for ever and ever.
and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man, birds, four-footed animals, and reptiles.
About eating food sacrificed to idols, then, we know that ‘an idol is nothing in the world’, and that ‘there is no God but one’.
But in the past, since you didn’t know God, you were enslaved to things that by nature are not gods.
They provoked his jealousy with different gods; they enraged him with detestable practices.
They have provoked my jealousy with what is not a god; they have enraged me with their worthless idols. So I will provoke their jealousy with what is not a people; I will enrage them with a foolish nation.
How happy you are, Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by the Lord? He is the shield that protects you, the sword you boast in. Your enemies will cringe before you, and you will tread on their backs. ,
For you know that you were redeemed from your empty way of life inherited from your ancestors, not with perishable things like silver or gold,
She named the boy Ichabod, saying, ‘The glory has departed from Israel,’ referring to the capture of the ark of God and to the deaths of her father-in-law and her husband.