Jeremiah 2:11

In 11 translations

BSB

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

KJV

Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit.

WEB

Has a nation changed its gods, which really are no gods? But my people have changed their glory for that which doesn’t profit.

ASV

Hath a nation changed its gods, which yet are no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit.

LSV

Has a nation changed gods? (And they [are] no gods!) And My people has changed its glory || For that which does not profit.

YLT

Hath a nation changed gods? (And they [are] no gods!) And My people hath changed its honour For that which doth not profit.

DBY

Hath a nation changed [its] gods? and they are no gods; — but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit.ElohimElohim

DRC

If a nation hath changed their gods, and indeed they are not gods: but my people have changed their glory into an idol.

GNV

Hath any nation changed their gods, which yet are no gods? but my people haue chaged their glorie, for that which doeth not profite.

JPS

Hath a nation changed its gods, which yet are no gods? But My people hath changed its glory for that which doth not profit.

LXXE

if the nations will change their gods, though they are not gods: but my people have changed their glory, for that from which they shall not be profited.

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Original-language editions

WLC

הַהֵימִ֥יר גּוֹי֙ אֱלֹהִ֔ים וְהֵ֖מָּה לֹ֣א אֱלֹהִ֑ים וְעַמִּ֛י הֵמִ֥יר כְּבוֹד֖וֹ בְּל֥וֹא יוֹעִֽיל׃

LXX-Br

εἰ ἀλλάξωνται ἔθνη θεοὺς αὐτῶν, καὶ οὗτοι οὐκ εἰσὶ θεοί· ὁ δὲ λαός μου ἠλλάξατο τὴν δόξαν αὐτοῦ, ἐξ ἧς οὐκ ὠφεληθήσονται.

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• Romans 1:23and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images of mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.
• Isaiah 37:19They 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.
• Psalms 106:20They exchanged their Glory for the image of a grass-eating ox.
• Jeremiah 16:20Can man make gods for himself? Such are not gods!”
• Micah 4:5Though 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 Corinthians 8:4So 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.
• Psalms 115:4Their idols are silver and gold, made by the hands of men.
• Jeremiah 2:8The 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.
• Psalms 3:3But You, O LORD, are a shield around me, my glory, and the One who lifts my head.
• Jeremiah 2:5This 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?
• Deuteronomy 33:29Blessed 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.”
• 1 Peter 1:18For 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,

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