Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
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?
General references
Bible References
What
Jeremiah 2:31
Generation, consider the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness to Israel? Or a land of thick darkness? Why do my people say, 'We have broken loose. We will come to you no more?'
Isaiah 5:3
"Now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, please judge between me and my vineyard.
Isaiah 43:22
Yet you have not called on me, Jacob; but you have been weary of me, Israel.
Micah 6:2
Hear, you mountains, the LORD's controversy, and you enduring foundations of the earth; for the LORD has a controversy with his people, and he will contend with Israel.
Are gone
Jeremiah 12:2
You have planted them, yes, they have taken root; they grow, yes, they bring forth fruit: you are near in their mouth, and far from their heart.
Isaiah 29:13
The Lord said, "Because this people draws near with their mouth and with their lips to honor me, but they have removed their heart far from me, but in vain do they worship me, teaching the commandments and doctrines of men.
Ezekiel 11:15
"Son of man, your brothers, even your brothers, the men of your relatives, and all the house of Israel, all of them, to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, 'Go far away from the LORD. This land has been given to us for a possession.'
Matthew 15:8
'These people honor me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.
And are
Jeremiah 51:17
Every man has become brutish without knowledge. Every goldsmith is disappointed by his image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
Psalm 115:8
Those who make them will be like them; yes, everyone who trusts in them.
Isaiah 44:9
Everyone who makes an engraved image is vain. The things that they delight in will not profit. Their own witnesses do not see, nor know, that they may be disappointed.
Romans 1:21
Because, although they knew God, they did not glorify him as God or give him thanks, but their thinking became nonsense, and their foolish heart was darkened.
General references
Genesis 4:6
The LORD said to Cain, "Why are you angry? Why has the expression of your face fallen?