Verse 11

Has a nation ever changed its gods(even though they are not really gods at all)? But my people have exchanged me, their glorious God, for a god that cannot help them at all!

Referenced Verses

  • Isa 37:19 : 19 They have burned the gods of the nations, for they are not really gods, but only the product of human hands manufactured from wood and stone. That is why the Assyrians could destroy them.
  • Jer 16:20 : 20 Can people make their own gods? No, what they make are not gods at all.”
  • Ps 106:20 : 20 They traded their majestic God for the image of an ox that eats grass.
  • Rom 1:23 : 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for an image resembling mortal human beings or birds or four-footed animals or reptiles.
  • Mic 4:5 : 5 Though all the nations follow their respective gods, we will follow the LORD our God forever.
  • Jer 2:5 : 5 This is what the Lord says:“What fault could your ancestors have possibly found in me that they strayed so far from me? They paid allegiance to worthless idols, and so became worthless to me.
  • Jer 2:8 : 8 Your priests did not ask,‘Where is the LORD?’ Those responsible for teaching my law did not really know me. Your rulers rebelled against me. Your prophets prophesied in the name of the god Baal. They all worshiped idols that could not help them.
  • Ps 115:4 : 4 Their idols are made of silver and gold– they are man-made.
  • Deut 33:29 : 29 You have joy, Israel! Who is like you? You are a people delivered by the LORD, your protective shield and your exalted sword. May your enemies cringe before you; may you trample on their backs.
  • Ps 3:3 : 3 But you, LORD, are a shield that protects me; you are my glory and the one who restores me.
  • 1 Cor 8:4 : 4 With regard then to eating food sacrificed to idols, we know that“an idol in this world is nothing,” and that“there is no God but one.”
  • 1 Pet 1:18 : 18 You know that from your empty way of life inherited from your ancestors you were ransomed– not by perishable things like silver or gold,