Jeremiah 2:11
Good News Translation
No other nation has ever changed its gods, even though they were not real. But my people have exchanged me, the God who has brought them honor, for gods that can do nothing for them.

New Revised Standard Version
Has a nation changed its gods, even though they are no gods? But my people have changed their glory for something that does not profit.

Contemporary English Version
You will find that no nation has ever abandoned its gods even though they were false. I am the true and glorious God, but you have rejected me to worship idols.

New American Bible
Does any other nation change its gods?— even though they are not gods at all! But my people have changed their glory for useless things.

Douay-Rheims Bible
If a nation hath changed their gods, and indeed they are not gods: but my people have changed their glory into an idol.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

If a nation hath changed their gods, and indeed they are not gods: but my people have changed their glory into an idol.

a nation

Jeremiah 2:5 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?

Micah 4:5 And every man shall sit under his vine, and under his fig tree, and there shall be none to make them afraid, for the mouth of the Lord of hosts hath spoken.

1 Peter 1:18 Knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, as gold or silver, from your vain conversation of the tradition of your fathers:

no gods

Jeremiah 16:20 Shall a man make gods unto himself and they are no gods?

Psalm 115:4 The idols of the Gentiles are silver and gold, the works of the hands of men.

Isaiah 37:19 And they have cast their gods into the fire, for they were not gods, but the works of men's hands, of wood and stone: and they broke them in pieces.

1 Corinthians 8:4 But as for the meats that are sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world and that there is no God but one.

changed their glory

Jeremiah 2:8 The priests did not say: Where is the Lord? and they that held the law knew me not, and the pastors transgressed against me: and the prophets prophesied in Baal, and followed idols.

Deuteronomy 33:29 Blessed art thou, Israel: who is like to thee, O people, that art saved by the Lord? the shield of thy help, and the sword of thy glory: thy enemies shall deny thee, and thou shalt tread upon their necks.

Psalm 3:3 But thou, O Lord, art my protector, my glory, and the lifter up of my head.

Psalm 106:20 And they changed their glory into the likeness of a calf that eateth grass.

Romans 1:23 And they changed the glory of the incorruptible God into the likeness of the image of a corruptible man and of birds, and of fourfooted beasts and of creeping things.

Context
Israel has Forsaken God
10Pass over to the isles of Cethim, and see: and send into Cedar, and consider diligently: and see if there hath been done any thing like this. 11If a nation hath changed their gods, and indeed they are not gods: but my people have changed their glory into an idol.12Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and ye gates thereof, be very desolate, saith the Lord.…
Cross References
Romans 1:23
And they changed the glory of the incorruptible God into the likeness of the image of a corruptible man and of birds, and of fourfooted beasts and of creeping things.

Galatians 4:8
But then indeed, not knowing God, you served them who, by nature, are not gods.

1 Samuel 4:21
And she called the child Ichabod, saying: The glory is gone from Israel, because the ark of God was taken, and for her father in law, and for her husband:

2 Chronicles 13:9
And you have cast out the priests of the Lord, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites: and you have made you priests, like all the nations of the earth: whosoever cometh and consecrateth his hand with a bullock of the herd, and with seven rams, is made a priest of those who are no gods.

Psalm 106:20
And they changed their glory into the likeness of a calf that eateth grass.

Isaiah 37:19
And they have cast their gods into the fire, for they were not gods, but the works of men's hands, of wood and stone: and they broke them in pieces.

Jeremiah 5:7
How can I be merciful to thee? thy children have forsaken me, and swear by them that are not gods: I fed them to the full, and they committed adultery, and rioted in the harlot's house.

Jeremiah 16:20
Shall a man make gods unto himself and they are no gods?

Jeremiah 18:13
Therefore thus saith the Lord: Ask among the nations: Who hath heard such horrible things, as the virgin of Israel hath done to excess?

Ezekiel 5:7
Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Because you have surpassed the Gentiles that are round about you, and have not walked in my commandments, and have not kept my judgments, and have not done according to the judgments of the nations that are round about you:

Ezekiel 14:5
That the house of Israel may be caught in their own heart, with which they have departed from me through all their idols.

Jeremiah 2:10
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