TOPICAL BIBLE
Idolatry
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Jeremiah 8:12Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among those who fall; in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, says Yahweh.Jeremiah 8:13I will utterly consume them, says Yahweh: no grapes shall be on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and the things that I have given them shall pass away from them.Jeremiah 8:14Why do we sit still? Assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fortified cities, and let us be silent there; for Yahweh our God has put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against Yahweh.Jeremiah 8:15We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and behold, dismay!Jeremiah 8:16The snorting of his horses is heard from Dan: at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones the whole land trembles; for they have come, and have devoured the land and all that is in it; the city and those who dwell therein.Jeremiah 8:17For, behold, I will send serpents, adders, among you, which will not be charmed; and they shall bite you, says Yahweh.Jeremiah 8:18Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! My heart is faint within me.Jeremiah 8:19Behold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land that is very far off: isn’t Yahweh in Zion? Isn’t her King in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their engraved images, and with foreign vanities?Jeremiah 10:3For the customs of the peoples are vanity; for one cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe.Jeremiah 10:4They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it not move.Jeremiah 10:5They are like a palm tree, of turned work, and don’t speak: they must be carried, because they can’t go. Don’t be afraid of them; for they can’t do evil, neither is it in them to do good.”Jeremiah 10:6There is none like you, Yahweh; you are great, and your name is great in might.Jeremiah 10:7Who should not fear you, King of the nations? For it appertains to you; because among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their royal estate, there is none like you.Jeremiah 10:8But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols! it is but a stock.Jeremiah 10:9There is silver beaten into plates, which is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the artificer and of the hands of the goldsmith; blue and purple for their clothing; they are all the work of skillful men.Jeremiah 10:10But Yahweh is the true God; he is the living God, and an everlasting King: at his wrath the earth trembles, and the nations are not able to withstand his indignation.Jeremiah 10:11You shall say this to them: The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, these shall perish from the earth, and from under the heavens.Jeremiah 10:12He has made the earth by his power, he has established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding has he stretched out the heavens:Jeremiah 10:13when he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he makes lightnings for the rain, and brings forth the wind out of his treasuries.Jeremiah 10:14Every man has become brutish and without knowledge; every goldsmith is disappointed by his engraved image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.Jeremiah 10:15They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.Jeremiah 10:16The portion of Jacob is not like these; for he is the former of all things; and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance: Yahweh of Armies is his name.Jeremiah 11:12Then shall the cities of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem go and cry to the gods to which they offer incense: but they will not save them at all in the time of their trouble.Jeremiah 11:17For Yahweh of Armies, who planted you, has pronounced evil against you, because of the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have worked for themselves in provoking me to anger by offering incense to Baal.Jeremiah 13:9Thus says Yahweh, In this way I will mar the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem.Jeremiah 13:10This evil people, who refuse to hear my words, who walk in the stubbornness of their heart, and are gone after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this belt, which is profitable for nothing.Jeremiah 13:11For as the belt clings to the waist of a man, so have I caused to cling to me the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah, says Yahweh; that they may be to me for a people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for a glory: but they would not hear.Jeremiah 13:12Therefore you shall speak to them this word: Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, Every bottle shall be filled with wine: and they shall tell you, Do we not certainly know that every bottle shall be filled with wine?Jeremiah 13:13Then you shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, even the kings who sit on David’s throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with drunkenness.Jeremiah 13:14I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, says Yahweh: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have compassion, that I should not destroy them.Jeremiah 13:15Hear, and give ear; don’t be proud; for Yahweh has spoken.Jeremiah 13:16Give glory to Yahweh your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and, while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it gross darkness.Jeremiah 13:17But if you will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret for your pride; and my eye shall weep bitterly, and run down with tears, because Yahweh’s flock is taken captive.Jeremiah 13:18Say to the king and to the queen mother, Humble yourselves, sit down; for your headdresses have come down, even the crown of your glory.Jeremiah 13:19The cities of the South are shut up, and there is none to open them: Judah is carried away captive, all of it; it is wholly carried away captive.Jeremiah 13:20Lift up your eyes, and see those who come from the north: where is the flock that was given you, your beautiful flock?Jeremiah 13:21What will you say, when he shall set over you as head those whom you have yourself taught to be friends to you? shall not sorrows take hold of you, as of a woman in travail?Jeremiah 13:22If you say in your heart, Why are these things come on me? for the greatness of your iniquity are your skirts uncovered, and your heels suffer violence.Jeremiah 13:23Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may you also do good, who are accustomed to do evil.Jeremiah 13:24Therefore will I scatter them, as the stubble that passes away, by the wind of the wilderness.Jeremiah 13:25This is your lot, the portion measured to you from me, says Yahweh; because you have forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.Jeremiah 13:26Therefore will I also uncover your skirts on your face, and your shame shall appear.Jeremiah 13:27I have seen your abominations, even your adulteries, and your neighing, the lewdness of your prostitution, on the hills in the field. Woe to you, Jerusalem! You will not be made clean; how long shall it yet be?Jeremiah 14:1The word of Yahweh that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought.Jeremiah 14:2Judah mourns, and its gates languish, they sit in black on the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.Jeremiah 14:3Their nobles send their little ones to the waters: they come to the cisterns, and find no water; they return with their vessels empty; they are disappointed and confounded, and cover their heads.Jeremiah 14:4Because of the ground which is cracked, because no rain has been in the land, the plowmen are disappointed, they cover their heads.Jeremiah 14:5Yes, the hind also in the field calves, and forsakes her young, because there is no grass.Jeremiah 14:6The wild donkeys stand on the bare heights, they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail, because there is no herbage.Jeremiah 14:7Though our iniquities testify against us, work for your name’s sake, Yahweh; for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against you.Jeremiah 14:8You hope of Israel, its Savior in the time of trouble, why should you be as a foreigner in the land, and as a wayfaring man who turns aside to stay for a night?Jeremiah 14:9Why should you be like a scared man, as a mighty man who can’t save? Yet you, Yahweh, are in the midst of us, and we are called by your name; don’t leave us.Jeremiah 14:10Thus says Yahweh to this people, Even so have they loved to wander; they have not refrained their feet: therefore Yahweh does not accept them; now he will remember their iniquity, and visit their sins.Jeremiah 14:11Yahweh said to me, Don’t pray for this people for their good.Jeremiah 14:12When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and meal offering, I will not accept them; but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.Jeremiah 14:13Then I said, Ah, Lord Yahweh! behold, the prophets tell them, You shall not see the sword, neither shall you have famine; but I will give you assured peace in this place.Jeremiah 14:14Then Yahweh said to me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name; I didn’t send them, neither have I commanded them, neither spoke I to them: they prophesy to you a lying vision, and divination, and a thing of nothing, and the deceit of their own heart.Jeremiah 14:22Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? or can the sky give showers? Aren’t you he, Yahweh our God? therefore we will wait for you; for you have made all these things.Jeremiah 16:19Yahweh, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, to you shall the nations come from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, vanity and things in which there is no profit.Jeremiah 16:20Shall a man make to himself gods, which yet are no gods?