THEOSISJeremiah 2:5Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
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?
כֹּ֣ה ׀ אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֗ה מַה־מָּצְא֨וּ אֲבוֹתֵיכֶ֥ם בִּי֙ עָ֔וֶל כִּ֥י רָחֲק֖וּ מֵעָלָ֑י וַיֵּֽלְכ֛וּ אַחֲרֵ֥י הַהֶ֖בֶל וַיֶּהְבָּֽלוּ׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Rom 1:21Because that, when they knew God, they have not glorified him as God or given thanks: but became vain in their thoughts. And their foolish heart was darkened.
- Jonah 2:8When my soul was in distress within me, I remembered the Lord: that my prayer may come to thee, unto the holy temple.
- Jer 10:14Every man is become a fool for knowledge, every artist is confounded in his graven idol: for what he hath cast is false, and there is no spirit in them.
- Jer 10:15They are vain things, and a ridiculous work: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
- Ps 115 (113):8
- Isa 44:9The makers of idols are all of them nothing, and their best beloved things shall not profit them. They are their witnesses, that they do not see, nor understand, that they may be ashamed.
- 1 Sam 12:21And turn not aside after vain things, which shall never profit you, nor deliver you, because they are vain.
- Deut 32:21They have provoked me with that which was no god, and have angered me with their vanities: and I will provoke them with that which is no people, and will vex them with a foolish nation.