Jeremiah 2:11
Hath a nation, changed gods, although they were No-gods? Yet my people have changed my glory for that which could not profit!
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
12Be amazed, O ye heavens, at this,—And shudder, be dried up utterly, Urgeth Yahweh.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:21They have moved me to jealousy with a No-GOD, They have angered me with their vanities: I, therefore, will move them to jealousy with a No-people, With an impious nation, will I anger them.
1 Kings 11:33Because they have forsaken me, and bowed themselves down to Ashtoreth, goddess of the Zidonians, to Chemosh, god of the Moabites, and to Milcom, god of the sons of Ammon,—and have not walked in my ways, by doing what is right in mine eyes, even my statutes and my regulations, like David his father.
Psalms 3:3But, thou, Yahweh, art a shield about me, my glory, and the lifter up of my head.
Psalms 115:4Their idols, are silver and gold, the works of the hands of men,—
Jeremiah 2:5Thus, saith Yahweh,—What did your fathers find in me by way of perversity, that they removed far from me,—and went after vanity, and became vain?
Jeremiah 5:7How, for this, can I pardon thee? Thine own sons, have forsaken me, And have sworn by No-gods,—When I had fed them to the full, Then committed they adultery, And the house of the unchaste woman, they used to throng:
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 2:10-14
Expostulations with Israel. ( b. c. 629.) 9 Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the Lord , and with your children's children will I plead. 10 For pass over the isles of Chittim, and see; and send unto Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there be such a thing. 11 Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit. 12 Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the Lord . 13 For my… Read the whole commentary →