Bible verse
Has a nation ever changed its gods, though they are no gods at all? Yet My people have exchanged their Glory for useless idols.
Jeremiah 2:11 · BSB
The verses around it, from Jeremiah 2.
7 I brought you into a fertile land to eat its fruit and bounty, but you came and defiled My land, and made My inheritance detestable.
8 The priests did not ask, ‘Where is the LORD?’ The experts in the law no longer knew Me, and the leaders rebelled against Me. The prophets prophesied by Baal and followed useless idols.
9 Therefore, I will contend with you again, declares the LORD, and I will bring a case against your children’s children.
10 Cross over to the coasts of Cyprus and take a look; send to Kedar and consider carefully; see if there has ever been anything like this:
11 Has a nation ever changed its gods, though they are no gods at all? Yet My people have exchanged their Glory for useless idols.
12 Be stunned by this, O heavens; be shocked and utterly appalled,” declares the LORD.
13 “For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns—broken cisterns that cannot hold water.
14 Is Israel a slave? Was he born into slavery? Why then has he become prey?
15 The young lions have roared at him; they have growled with a loud voice. They have laid waste his land; his cities lie in ruins, without inhabitant.
KJV
Hath a nation changed [their] gods, which [are] yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for [that which] doth not profit.
ASV
Hath a nation changed its gods, which yet are no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit.
ERV
Hath a nation changed their gods, which yet are no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit.
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