Jeremiah 2:5 - Revised Standard Version CI

⁵ Thus says the Lord: “What wrong did your fathers find in me that they went far from me, and went after worthlessness, and became worthless?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ Thus says the Lord: What unrighteousness did your fathers find in Me, that they went far from Me and [habitually] went after emptiness, falseness, and futility and themselves became fruitless and worthless?

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ Thus saith Jehovah, What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?

Common English Bible

⁵ This is what the LORD says: What wrong did your ancestors find in me that made them wander so far? They pursued what was worthless and became worthless.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ Thus says the Lord: "What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they would draw far away from me, and would walk after emptiness, and would become empty?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵ Thus saith the Lord: What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me and have walked after vanity and are become vain?

Jeremiah 2:5 Tagairtí Cros

2 Kings 17:15

They despised his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and the warnings which he gave them. They went after false idols, and became false, and they followed the nations that were round about them, concerning whom the Lord had commanded them that they should not do like them.

Psalm 115:8

Those who make them are like them; so are all who trust in them.

Isaiah 29:13

And the Lord said: “Because this people draw near with their mouth and honor me with their lips, while their hearts are far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men learned by rote;

Isaiah 44:9

All who make idols are nothing, and the things they delight in do not profit; their witnesses neither see nor know, that they may be put to shame.

Isaiah 46:12

“Hearken to me, you stubborn of heart, you who are far from deliverance:

Jeremiah 10:8

They are both stupid and foolish; the instruction of idols is but wood!

Jeremiah 12:2

Thou plantest them, and they take root; they grow and bring forth fruit; thou art near in their mouth and far from their heart.

Jeremiah 14:22

Are there any among the false gods of the nations that can bring rain? Or can the heavens give showers? Art thou not he, O Lord our God? We set our hope on thee, for thou doest all these things.

Jeremiah 2:31

And you, O generation, heed the word of the Lord. Have I been a wilderness to Israel, or a land of thick darkness? Why then do my people say, ‘We are free, we will come no more to thee’?

Jeremiah 2:4

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

Jeremiah 8:19

Hark, the cry of the daughter of my people from the length and breadth of the land: “Is the Lord not in Zion? Is her King not in her?” “Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with their foreign idols?”

Ezekiel 11:15

“Son of man, your brethren, even your brethren, your fellow exiles, the whole house of Israel, all of them, are those of whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, ‘They have gone far from the Lord; to us this land is given for a possession.’

Ezekiel 14:5

that I may lay hold of the hearts of the house of Israel, who are all estranged from me through their idols.

Jonah 2:8

Those who pay regard to vain idols forsake their true loyalty.

Matthew 15:8

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

Acts 14:15

“Men, why are you doing this? We also are men, of like nature with you, and bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things to a living God who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all that is in them.

Romans 1:21

for although they knew God they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking and their senseless minds were darkened.

Deuteronomy 32:21

They have stirred me to jealousy with what is no god; they have provoked me with their idols. So I will stir them to jealousy with those who are no people; I will provoke them with a foolish nation.

1 Samuel 12:21

and do not turn aside after vain things which cannot profit or save, for they are vain.