Jeremiah 12:2 - New International Version (Anglicised)

² You have planted them, and they have taken root; they grow and bear fruit. You are always on their lips but far from their hearts.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² Thou hast planted them, yea, they have taken root: they grow, yea, they bring forth fruit: thou art near in their mouth, and far from their reins.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² You have planted them, yes, they have taken root; they grow, yes, they bring forth fruit. You are near in their mouths but far from their hearts.

American Standard Version (1901)

² Thou hast planted them, yea, they have taken root; they grow, yea, they bring forth fruit: thou art near in their mouth, and far from their heart.

Common English Bible

² You plant them, and they take root; they flourish and bear fruit. You are always on their lips but far from their hearts.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² You planted them, and they took root. They are prospering and bearing fruit. You are near to their mouths, but far from their hearts.

Jeremiah 12:2 Tagairtí Cros

Job 24:12

The groans of the dying rise from the city, and the souls of the wounded cry out for help. But God charges no-one with wrongdoing.

Job 5:3

I myself have seen a fool taking root, but suddenly his house was cursed.

Psalm 37:35

I have seen a wicked and ruthless man flourishing like a luxuriant native tree,

Isaiah 29:13

The Lord says: ‘These people come near to me with their mouth and honour me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Their worship of me is based on merely human rules they have been taught.

Jeremiah 11:17

The Lord Almighty, who planted you, has decreed disaster for you, because the people of both Israel and Judah have done evil and aroused my anger by burning incense to Baal.

Jeremiah 3:10

In spite of all this, her unfaithful sister Judah did not return to me with all her heart, but only in pretence,’ declares the Lord.

Jeremiah 45:4

But the Lord has told me to say to you, “This is what the Lord says: I will overthrow what I have built and uproot what I have planted, throughout the earth.

Ezekiel 33:31

My people come to you, as they usually do, and sit before you to hear your words, but they do not put them into practice. Their mouths speak of love, but their hearts are greedy for unjust gain.

Hosea 7:14

They do not cry out to me from their hearts but wail on their beds. They slash themselves, appealing to their gods for grain and new wine, but they turn away from me.

Habakkuk 1:13

Your eyes are too pure to look on evil; you cannot tolerate wrongdoing. Why then do you tolerate the treacherous? Why are you silent while the wicked swallow up those more righteous than themselves?

Matthew 15:8

‘ “These people honour me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.

Mark 7:6

He replied, ‘Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites; as it is written: ‘ “These people honour me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.

Titus 1:16

They claim to know God, but by their actions they deny him. They are detestable, disobedient and unfit for doing anything good.