Jeremiah 2:11

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Jeremiah 2:9–13 · Berean Standard Bible

9 Therefore, I will contend with you again, declares the LORD, and I will bring a case against your children’s children.

10 Cross over to the coasts of Cyprus and take a look; send to Kedar and consider carefully; see if there has ever been anything like this:

11 Has a nation ever changed its gods, though they are no gods at all? Yet My people have exchanged their Glory for useless idols.

12 Be stunned by this, O heavens; be shocked and utterly appalled,” declares the LORD.

13 “For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns— broken cisterns that cannot hold water.

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Jeremiah 2:5

This 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?

Micah 4:5

Though 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.

1 Peter 1:18

For 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,

Jeremiah 16:20

Can man make gods for himself? Such are not gods!”

Psalms 115:4

Their idols are silver and gold, made by the hands of men.

Isaiah 37:19

They 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.

1 Corinthians 8:4

So 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.

Jeremiah 2:8

The 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.

Deuteronomy 33:29

Blessed 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.”

Psalms 3:3

But You, O LORD, are a shield around me, my glory, and the One who lifts my head.

Psalms 106:20

They exchanged their Glory for the image of a grass-eating ox.

Romans 1:23

and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images of mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.