Jeremiah 2:11
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Has a nation ever changed its gods, though they are no gods at all? Yet My people have exchanged their Glory for useless idols.”
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“Has a nation ever changed its gods, though they are no gods at all? Yet My people have exchanged their Glory for useless idols.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Hath a nation changed its gods, which yet are no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Hath a nation changed gods? (And they <FI>are<Fi> no gods!) And My people hath changed its honour For that which doth not profit.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Jeremiah 2:11 — 18 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 32:16They provoked His jealousy with foreign gods; they enraged Him with abominations.
- Deuteronomy 32:21They have provoked My jealousy by that which is not God; they have enraged Me with their worthless idols. So I will make them jealous by those who are not a people; I will make them angry by a nation without understanding.
- Deuteronomy 33:29Blessed are you, O Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by the LORD? He is the shield that protects you, the sword in which you boast. Your enemies will cower before you, and you shall trample their high places.”
- 1 Kings 11:33For they have forsaken Me to worship Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the Ammonites. They have not walked in My ways, nor done what is right in My eyes, nor kept My statutes and judgments, as Solomon’s father David did.
- 2 Kings 1:3But the angel of the LORD said to Elijah the Tishbite, “Go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria and ask them, ‘Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are on your way to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron?’
- Psalms 3:3But You, O LORD, are a shield around me, my glory, and the One who lifts my head.
- Psalms 106:20They exchanged their Glory for the image of a grass-eating ox.
- Psalms 115:4Their idols are silver and gold, made by the hands of men.
- Isaiah 37:19They have cast their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods, but only wood and stone—the work of human hands.
- Jeremiah 2:5This is what the LORD says: “What fault did your fathers find in Me that they strayed so far from Me, and followed worthless idols, and became worthless themselves?
- Jeremiah 2:8The priests did not ask, ‘Where is the LORD?’ The experts in the law no longer knew Me, and the leaders rebelled against Me. The prophets prophesied by Baal and followed useless idols.
- Jeremiah 5:7“Why should I forgive you? Your children have forsaken Me and sworn by gods that are not gods. I satisfied their needs, yet they committed adultery and assembled at the houses of prostitutes.
- Jeremiah 16:20Can man make gods for himself? Such are not gods!”
- Ezekiel 14:5so that I may take hold of the hearts of the people of Israel. For because of their idols, they are all estranged from Me.’
- Micah 4:5Though each of the peoples may walk in the name of his god, yet we will walk in the name of the LORD our God forever and ever.
- Romans 1:23and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images of mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.
- 1 Corinthians 8:4So about eating food sacrificed to idols: We know that an idol is nothing at all in the world, and that there is no God but one.
- 1 Peter 1:18For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life you inherited from your forefathers,
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