Jeremiah 2:5 — Bible Verse (KJV)
“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?”
Jeremiah 2:5 — King James Version (KJV), 1611
Jeremiah 2:5 in 6 Bible Translations
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Jeremiah 2:5 WEB — World English Bible (2000)
“Yahweh says, “What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after worthless vanity, and have become worthless?”
Jeremiah 2:5 — World English Bible
Jeremiah 2:5 ASV — American Standard Version (1901)
“Thus saith Jehovah, What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain? ”
Jeremiah 2:5 — American Standard Version
Jeremiah 2:5 YLT — Young's Literal Translation (1862)
“Thus said Jehovah: What--have your fathers found in Me perversity, That they have gone far off from Me, And go after the vanity, and become vain,”
Jeremiah 2:5 — Young's Literal Translation
Jeremiah 2:5 DBY — Darby Translation (1890)
“Thus saith Jehovah: What injustice have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and become vain? ”
Jeremiah 2:5 — Darby Translation
Jeremiah 2:5 GEN — Geneva Bible (1599)
“Thus sayeth the Lord, What iniquitie haue your fathers founde in mee, that they are gone farre from mee, and haue walked after vanitie, and are become vaine?”
Jeremiah 2:5 — Geneva Bible
Jeremiah 2:5 in Context — Jeremiah 2
3 Israel was holiness unto the Lord, and the firstfruits of his increase: all that devour him shall offend; evil shall come upon them, saith the Lord.
4 Hear ye the word of the Lord, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel:
5 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?
6 Neither said they, Where is the Lord that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?
7 And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination.
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