Jeremiah 2:11

KJV1611 – Modern English

Has a nation changed their gods, which are not gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.

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  • Isa 37:19 : 19 And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.
  • Jer 16:20 : 20 Shall a man make gods for himself, which are not gods?
  • Ps 106:20 : 20 Thus they changed their glory into the likeness of an ox that eats grass.
  • Rom 1:23 : 23 And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man, and to birds and four-footed beasts and creeping things.
  • Mic 4:5 : 5 For all people will walk, each in the name of his god, and we will walk in the name of the LORD our God forever and ever.
  • Jer 2:5 : 5 Thus says the LORD, What wrong have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have followed idols, and have become idolaters?
  • Jer 2:8 : 8 The priests did not say, Where is the LORD? and those who handle the law did not know me: the shepherds also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.
  • Ps 115:4 : 4 Their idols are silver and gold, the work of human hands.
  • Deut 33:29 : 29 Happy are you, O Israel: who is like you, O people saved by the LORD, the shield of your help, and who is the sword of your majesty! And your enemies shall be found liars to you; and you shall tread upon their high places.
  • Ps 3:3 : 3 But you, O LORD, are a shield for me; my glory and the lifter of my head.
  • 1 Cor 8:4 : 4 Therefore, concerning the eating of things offered to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one.
  • 1 Pet 1:18 : 18 Knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers,

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  • Jer 2:12-13
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    12Be astonished, O heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be very desolate, says the LORD.

    13For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and carved themselves cisterns, broken cisterns that can hold no water.

  • 10For pass over the isles of Chittim, and see; and send to Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there has been such a thing.

  • 20Shall a man make gods for himself, which are not gods?

  • Jer 2:31-32
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    31O generation, behold the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness to Israel? a land of darkness? why do my people say, We are lords; we will come no more to you?

    32Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.

  • 5Thus says the LORD, What wrong have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have followed idols, and have become idolaters?

  • 7And my people are determined to backslide from me; though they called them to the Most High, none at all would exalt him.

  • 4They have set up kings, but not by me; they have made princes, and I did not acknowledge it. From their silver and their gold, they have made idols for themselves, that they may be cut off.

  • 15Because my people have forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not established;

  • 10They have turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, who refused to hear my words; and they went after other gods to serve them: the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers.

  • 8The priests did not say, Where is the LORD? and those who handle the law did not know me: the shepherds also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.

  • 9The women of my people you have cast out from their pleasant houses; from their children you have taken away my glory forever.

  • 28But where are your gods that you have made? let them arise, if they can save you in the time of your trouble: for according to the number of your cities are your gods, O Judah.

  • 7As they were multiplied, so they sinned against me: therefore I will turn their glory into shame.

  • 10Who has formed a god, or cast a carved image that is profitable for nothing?

  • 2Why should the nations say, Where is now their God?

  • 6And those that have turned back from the LORD; and those that have not sought the LORD, nor inquired for Him.

  • 37And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted,

  • 9Have you not cast out the priests of the LORD, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and have made yourselves priests like the peoples of other lands? So that whoever comes to consecrate himself with a young bull and seven rams, the same may be a priest of those who are no gods.

  • 8Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, what their own fingers have made.

  • 4In that day shall one take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, We are utterly spoiled: he has changed the portion of my people; how has he removed it from me! Turning away, he has divided our fields.

  • 11The LORD will be awesome to them: for he will starve all the gods of the earth; and men shall worship him, every one from his place, even all the isles of the nations.

  • 11Then his mind changes, and he transgresses; he commits offense, ascribing this power to his god.

  • 19Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of those who dwell in a far country: Is not the LORD in Zion? Is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their carved images and strange idols?

  • 6Therefore You have forsaken Your people, the house of Jacob, because they are replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves with the children of strangers.

  • 6And she has changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries around her: for they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they have not walked in them.

  • 26For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given to them:

  • 17Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare your people, O LORD, and give not your heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples, Where is their God?

  • 22For my people are foolish, they have not known me; they are senseless children, and they have no understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

  • 19And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.

  • 6My people have been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their resting place.

  • 5The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves of Beth-aven: for its people shall mourn over it, and its priests who rejoiced on it, for its glory, because it has departed from it.

  • 13Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts that the people shall labor in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for mere vanity?

  • 11Then you shall say to them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, says the LORD, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshiped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my law.

  • 10And the pride of Israel bears witness to his face: and they do not return to the LORD their God, nor seek him for all this.

  • 24Do you not consider what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which the LORD has chosen, he has even cast them off? Thus they have despised my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.

  • 9Then they shall answer, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God, and worshiped other gods, and served them.

  • 13You who rejoice in a thing of nothing, who say, Have we not taken to us horns by our own strength?

  • 5Because you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my precious pleasant things.

  • 13Therefore my people have gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honorable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.

  • 17You have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet you say, How have we wearied him? When you say, Everyone that does evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and he delights in them; or, Where is the God of justice?

  • 18And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were not gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.

  • 21They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their idols: and I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

  • 12And they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, the gods of the people that were around them, and bowed themselves to them, and provoked the LORD to anger.

  • 4Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children who are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel to anger, they have gone away backward.

  • 11The leaders judge for reward, and the priests teach for hire, and the prophets divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? No harm can come upon us.

  • 6Turn to Him from whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted.

  • 11For as the belt clings to the waist of a man, so have I caused the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah to cling to me, says the LORD; that they might be to me a people, and a name, and a praise, and a glory: but they would not hear.

  • 12For they served idols, of which the LORD had said to them, You shall not do this thing.