Jeremiah 2:11
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.
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 people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
Dette ble sagt til Israel i en bestemt tid, så det er lurt å lese det sammen med teksten rundt. Les gjerne versene rundt også, for sammenhengen gir ofte mer enn ett vers alene.
Sammenlign
- ÅB
- Har vel et hedningefolk byttet bort sine guder, enda de ikke er guder? Men mitt folk har byttet bort sin ære mot det som ikke kan hjelpe[^3].
- OTB
- Har et folk noen gang byttet sine guder, selv om de ikke er guder i det hele tatt? Men mitt folk har byttet sin herlige Gud for det som er verdiløst.
- B1930
- Har vel et hedningefolk byttet bort sine guder, enda de ikke er guder? Men mitt folk har byttet bort sin ære mot det som ikke kan hjelpe. / < JER 2, 8. SLM 106, 20.>
- BSB
- Has a nation ever changed its gods, though they are no gods at all? Yet My people have exchanged their Glory for useless idols.
- 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.
- WEB
- Has a nation changed its gods, which really are no gods? But my people have changed their glory for that which doesn’t 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.
- DARBY
- Hath a nation changed [its] gods? and they are no gods; but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit.
- BLB
- Has a nation changed [its] gods, (and they [are] not gods)? And My people have changed their Glory for [what] does not profit.
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Romans 1:23
And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
Les i sammenhengIsaiah 37:19
And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.
Les i sammenhengPsalms 106:20
Thus they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass.
Les i sammenhengJeremiah 16:20
Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they are no gods?
Les i sammenhengMicah 4:5
For all people will walk every one in the name of his god, and we will walk in the name of the LORD our God for ever and ever.
Les i sammenhengPsalms 115:4
Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.
Les i sammenheng1 Corinthians 8:4
As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.
Les i sammenhengJeremiah 2:8
The priests said not, Where is the LORD? and they that handle the law knew me not: the pastors also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.
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