Jeremiah 2:5

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What does Jeremiah 2:5 mean?

Jeremiah 2:5 in the original Hebrew

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Cross references for Jeremiah 2:5

• 2 Kings 17:15

  And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the Lord had charged them, that they should not do like them.

• Romans 1:21

  Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

• Jonah 2:8

  They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.

• Jeremiah 10:14-15

  Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them. They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

• Psalms 115:8

  They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them.

• Isaiah 44:9

  They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.

• Jeremiah 51:17-18

  Every man is brutish by his knowledge; every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them. They are vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

• 1 Samuel 12:21

  And turn ye not aside: for then should ye go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain.

• Acts 14:15

  And saying, Sirs, why do ye these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God, which made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein:

• Deuteronomy 32:21

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

• Isaiah 5:3-4

  And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard. What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?

• Jeremiah 2:31

  O generation, see ye the word of the Lord. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We are lords; we will come no more unto thee?

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Context

• Jeremiah 2:4

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

• Jeremiah 2:5

  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 2:6

  Neither said they, Where is the Lord that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?

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