TOPICAL BIBLE
Idolatry
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Jeremiah 8:12They were ashamed when they did abomination! Yea, they are not at all ashamed, And blushing they have not known, Therefore, they do fall among falling ones, In the time of their inspection they stumble, said Jehovah.Jeremiah 8:13I utterly consume them, an affirmation of Jehovah, There are no grapes in the vine, Yea, there are no figs in the fig-tree, And the leaf hath faded, And the strength they have passeth from them.Jeremiah 8:14Wherefore are we sitting still? Be gathered, and we go in to the fenced cities, And we are silent there, For Jehovah our God hath made us silent, Yea, He causeth us to drink water of gall, For we have sinned against Jehovah.Jeremiah 8:15Looking for peace—and there is no good, For a time of healing, and lo, terror.Jeremiah 8:16From Dan hath been heard the snorting of his horses, From the voice of the neighings of his mighty ones, Trembled hath all the land, And they come in and consume the land and its fulness, The city and the inhabitants in it.Jeremiah 8:17For, lo, I am sending among you serpents, Vipers that have no charmer, And they have bitten you, an affirmation of Jehovah.Jeremiah 8:18My refreshing for me is sorrow, For me my heart is sick.Jeremiah 8:19Lo, the voice of a cry of the daughter of my people from a land afar off, Is Jehovah not in Zion? is her king not in her? Wherefore have they provoked Me with their graven images, With the vanities of a foreigner?Jeremiah 10:3For the statutes of the peoples are vanity, For a tree from a forest hath one cut, Work of the hands of an artificer, with an axe,Jeremiah 10:4With silver and with gold they beautify it, With nails and with hammers they fix it, And it doth not stumble.Jeremiah 10:5As a palm they are stiff, and they speak not, They are surely borne, for they step not, Be not afraid of them, for they do no evil, Yea, also to do good is not in them.Jeremiah 10:6Because there is none like Thee, O Jehovah, Great art Thou, and great Thy name in might.Jeremiah 10:7Who doth not fear Thee, king of the nations? For to Thee it is becoming, For among all the wise of the nations, And in all their kingdom there is none like Thee.Jeremiah 10:8And in one they are brutish and foolish, An instruction of vanities is the tree itself.Jeremiah 10:9Spread-out silver from Tarshish is brought, And gold from Uphaz, Work of an artisan, and of the hands of a refiner, Blue and purple is their clothing, Work of the skilful—all of them.Jeremiah 10:10And Jehovah is a God of truth, He is a living God, and a king age-during, From His wrath shake doth the earth, And nations endure not His indignation.Jeremiah 10:11Thus do ye say to them, The gods Who the heavens and earth have not made, They do perish from the earth, And from under these heavens.Jeremiah 10:12The maker of the earth by His power, The establisher of the world by His wisdom, Who, by His understanding, stretched forth the heavens,Jeremiah 10:13At the voice He giveth forth, A multitude of waters is in the heavens, And He causeth vapours to come up from the end of the earth, Lightnings for rain He hath made, And bringeth out wind from His treasures.Jeremiah 10:14Brutish is every man by knowledge, Put to shame is every refiner by a graven image, For false is his molten image. And there is no breath in them.Jeremiah 10:15Vanity are they, work of erring ones, In the time of their inspection they perish.Jeremiah 10:16Not like these is the Portion of Jacob, For framer of all things is He, And Israel is the rod of His inheritance, Jehovah of Hosts is His name.Jeremiah 11:12And the cities of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem have gone, And they have cried unto the gods, To whom they are making perfume, And they give no deliverance at all to them, In the time of their vexation.Jeremiah 11:17And Jehovah of Hosts, who is planting thee, Hath spoken evil concerning thee, For the evil of the house of Israel, and of the house of Judah, That they have done to themselves, To provoke Me to anger, to make perfume to Baal.Jeremiah 13:9Thus do I mar the excellency of Judah, And the great excellency of Jerusalem.Jeremiah 13:10This evil people, who refuse to hear My words, Who walk in the stubbornness of their heart, And go after other gods to serve them, And to bow themselves to them, Yea it is—as this girdle, that is not profitable for anything.Jeremiah 13:11For, as the girdle cleaveth unto the loins of a man, So I caused to cleave unto Me The whole house of Israel, And the whole house of Judah, an affirmation of Jehovah, To be to Me for a people, and for a name, And for praise, and for beauty, And they have not hearkened.Jeremiah 13:12And thou hast said unto them this word, Thus said Jehovah, God of Israel, ‘Every bottle is full of wine,’ And they have said unto thee: ‘Do we not certainly know that every bottle is full of wine?’Jeremiah 13:13And thou hast said unto them, ‘Thus said Jehovah: Lo, I am filling all the inhabitants of this land, And the kings who sit for David on his throne, And the priests, and the prophets, And all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, With drunkenness,Jeremiah 13:14And have dashed them one against another, And the fathers and the sons together, An affirmation of Jehovah, I do not pity, nor spare, nor have I mercy, So as not to destroy them.Jeremiah 13:15Hear, and give ear—be not haughty, For Jehovah hath spoken.Jeremiah 13:16Give ye to Jehovah your God honour, Before He doth cause darkness, And before your feet stumble on dark mountains, And ye have waited for light, And He hath made it for death-shade, And hath appointed it for thick darkness.Jeremiah 13:17And if ye do not hear it, In secret places doth my soul weep, because of pride, Yea, it weepeth sore, And the tear cometh down mine eyes, For the flock of Jehovah hath been taken captive.Jeremiah 13:18Say to the king and to the mistress: Make yourselves low—sit still, For come down have your principalities, The crown of your beauty.Jeremiah 13:19The cities of the south have been shut up, And there is none opening, Judah hath been removed—all of her, She hath been removed completely—Jeremiah 13:20Lift up your eyes, and see those coming in from the north, Where is the drove given to thee, thy beautiful flock?Jeremiah 13:21What dost thou say, when He looketh after thee? And thou—thou hast taught them to be over thee—leaders for head? Do not pangs seize thee as a travailing woman?Jeremiah 13:22And when thou dost say in thy heart, ‘Wherefore have these met me?’ For the abundance of thine iniquity Have thy skirts been uncovered, Have thy heels suffered violence.Jeremiah 13:23Doth a Cushite change his skin? and a leopard his spots? Ye also are able to do good, who are accustomed to do evil.Jeremiah 13:24And I scatter them as stubble, Passing away, by a wind of the wilderness.Jeremiah 13:25This is thy lot, the portion of thy measures from Me—an affirmation of Jehovah, Because thou hast forgotten me, And dost trust in falsehood.Jeremiah 13:26I also have made bare thy skirts before thy face, And thy shame hath been seen.Jeremiah 13:27Thine adulteries, and thy neighings, The wickedness of thy whoredom, on heights in a field, I have seen thine abominations. Woe to thee, O Jerusalem, Thou art not cleansed, after when is it again?Jeremiah 14:1That which hath been the word of Jehovah unto Jeremiah concerning the matters of the dearths:Jeremiah 14:2Mourned hath Judah, and her gates have languished, They have mourned to the earth, And the cry of Jerusalem hath gone up.Jeremiah 14:3And their honourable ones have sent their little ones to the water, They have come unto ditches, They have not found water, They have turned back—their vessels empty! They have been ashamed, And have blushed and covered their head.Jeremiah 14:4Because the ground hath been broken, For there hath been no rain in the land, Ashamed have been husbandmen, They have covered their head.Jeremiah 14:5For even the hind in the field hath brought forth—to forsake it! For there hath been no grass.Jeremiah 14:6And wild asses have stood on high places, They have swallowed up wind like dragons, Consumed have been their eyes, for there is no herb.Jeremiah 14:7Surely our iniquities have testified against us, O Jehovah, work for Thy name’s sake, For many have been our backslidings, Against Thee we have sinned.Jeremiah 14:8O Hope of Israel—its saviour in time of trouble, Why art Thou as a sojourner in the land? And as a traveller turned aside to lodge?Jeremiah 14:9Why art Thou as one dumb? As a mighty one not able to save? And Thou art in our midst, O Jehovah, And Thy name over us is called, leave us not.Jeremiah 14:10Thus said Jehovah concerning this people: Well they have loved to wander, Their feet they have not restrained, And Jehovah hath not accepted them, Now doth He remember their iniquity, And inspect their sin.Jeremiah 14:11And Jehovah saith unto me: Thou dost not pray for this people for good,Jeremiah 14:12When they fast, I hearken not unto their cry, And when they cause to ascend burnt-offering and present, I accept them not, For by sword, and by famine, And by pestilence, I am consuming them.Jeremiah 14:13And I say, ‘Ah, Lord Jehovah, Lo, the prophets are saying to them: Ye do not see a sword, yea, famine is not to you, For true peace I give to you in this place.’Jeremiah 14:14And Jehovah saith unto me: Falsehood the prophets are prophesying in My name, I did not send them, nor command them, Nor have I spoken unto them: A false vision, and divination, and vanity, And the deceit of their own heart, they are prophesying to you.Jeremiah 14:22Are there among the vanities of the nations any causing rain? And do the heavens give showers? Art not Thou He, O Jehovah our God? And we wait for thee, for Thou—Thou hast done all these!Jeremiah 16:19O Jehovah, my strength, and my fortress, And my refuge in a day of adversity, Unto Thee nations do come from the ends of earth, And say, Only falsehood did our fathers inherit, Vanity, and none among them is profitable.Jeremiah 16:20Doth man make for himself gods, And they—no gods?