Jeremiah 18:15
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15 But my people have forgotten me;
they burn offerings to a delusion;
they have stumbled[a] in their ways,
in the ancient roads,
and have gone into bypaths,
not the highway,(A)
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- 18.15 Gk Syr Vg: Heb they made them stumble
Jeremiah 6:16
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16 Thus says the Lord:
Stand at the crossroads and look,
and ask for the ancient paths,
where the good way lies; and walk in it,
and find rest for your souls.
But they said, “We will not walk in it.”(A)
Hosea 11:2
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2 The more I[a] called them,
the more they went from me;[b]
they kept sacrificing to the Baals
and offering incense to idols.(A)
Jeremiah 2:32
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32 Can a young woman forget her ornaments
or a bride her attire?
Yet my people have forgotten me,
days without number.(A)
Malachi 2:8
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8 But you have turned aside from the way; you have caused many to stumble by your instruction; you have corrupted the covenant of Levi, says the Lord of hosts,(A)
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Jeremiah 2:13
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13 for my people have committed two evils:
they have forsaken me,
the fountain of living water,
and dug out cisterns for themselves,
cracked cisterns
that can hold no water.(A)
Isaiah 57:14
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A Promise of Help and Healing
14 It shall be said,
“Build up, build up, prepare the way;
remove every obstruction from my people’s way.”(A)
Jeremiah 17:13
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13 O hope of Israel! O Lord!
All who forsake you shall be put to shame;
those who turn away from you[a] shall be recorded in the underworld,[b]
for they have forsaken the fountain of living water, the Lord.(A)
Jeremiah 10:15
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15 They are worthless, a work of delusion;
at the time of their punishment they shall perish.
Isaiah 41:29
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29 No, they are all a delusion;
their works are nothing;
their images are empty wind.(A)
Matthew 15:6
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6 So, for the sake of your tradition, you nullify the word[a] of God.
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- 15.6 Other ancient authorities read law or commandment
Hosea 2:13
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13 I will punish her for the festival days of the Baals,
to whom she offered incense
and decked herself with her rings and jewelry
and went after her lovers
and forgot me, says the Lord.(A)
Jeremiah 16:19
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19 O Lord, my strength and my stronghold,
my refuge in the day of trouble,
to you shall the nations come
from the ends of the earth and say:
“Our ancestors have inherited nothing but lies,
worthless things in which there is no profit.(A)
Jeremiah 13:25
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25 This is your lot,
the portion I have measured out to you, says the Lord,
because you have forgotten me
and trusted in lies.(A)
Jeremiah 3:21
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21 A voice on the bare heights[a] is heard,
the plaintive weeping of Israel’s children,
because they have perverted their way;
they have forgotten the Lord their God:(A)
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- 3.21 Or the trails
Romans 14:21
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21 it is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that makes your brother or sister stumble.[a](A)
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- 14.21 Other ancient authorities add or be upset or be weakened
Jeremiah 44:25
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25 Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: You and your wives have accomplished in deeds what you declared in words, saying, ‘We are determined to perform the vows that we have made, to make offerings to the queen of heaven and to pour out libations to her.’ By all means, keep your vows and make your libations!(A)
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Jeremiah 44:15-19
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15 Then all the men who were aware that their wives had been making offerings to other gods and all the women who stood by, a great assembly, all the people who lived in Pathros in the land of Egypt, answered Jeremiah:(A) 16 “As for the word that you have spoken to us in the name of the Lord, we are not going to listen to you.(B) 17 Instead, we will do everything that we have vowed, make offerings to the queen of heaven and pour out libations to her, just as we and our ancestors, our kings and our officials, used to do in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. We used to have plenty of food and prospered and saw no misfortune.(C) 18 But from the time we stopped making offerings to the queen of heaven and pouring out libations to her, we have lacked everything and have perished by the sword and by famine.”(D) 19 And the women said,[a] “Indeed we will go on making offerings to the queen of heaven and pouring out libations to her; do you think that we made cakes for her, marked with her image, and poured out libations to her without our husbands’ being involved?”(E)
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- 44.19 Gk: Heb lacks And the women said
Jeremiah 19:5
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5 and gone on building the high places of Baal to burn their children in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal, which I did not command or decree, nor did it enter my mind,(A)
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Isaiah 65:7
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7 their[a] iniquities and their[b] ancestors’ iniquities together,
says the Lord;
because they offered incense on the mountains
and reviled me on the hills,
I will measure into their laps
full payment for their actions.(A)
Isaiah 62:10
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10 Go through, go through the gates;
prepare the way for the people;
build up, build up the highway;
clear it of stones;
lift up an ensign over the peoples.(A)
Isaiah 9:16
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16 for those who led this people led them astray,
and those who were led by them were left in confusion.(A)
Isaiah 3:12
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12 My people—their oppressors extort them,
and creditors[a] rule over them.
O my people, your leaders mislead you
and confuse the course of your paths.(A)
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- 3.12 Gk: Heb women
Jeremiah 2:19
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19 Your wickedness will punish you,
and your faithlessness will convict you.
Know and see that it is evil and bitter
for you to forsake the Lord your God;
the fear of me is not in you,
says the Lord God of hosts.(A)
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