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Jeremiah 1:16

I will pronounce My judgments against them for all their wickedness, because they have forsaken Me to burn incense to other gods and to worship the works of their own hands.

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ASV

And I will utter my judgments against them touching all their wickedness, in that they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, and worshipped the works of their own hands.

KJV

And I will utter my judgments against them touching all their wickedness, who have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, and worshipped the works of their own hands.

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14 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
וְדִבַּרְתִּ֤יve.di.bar.Tiand I will speakH1696 →
מִשְׁפָּטַי֙mish.pa.Taijudgments myH4941 →
אוֹתָ֔ם'o.Tamwith themH854 →
עַ֖ל'alonH5921 →
כָּל־kol-allH3605 →
רָעָתָ֑םra.'a.Tamwickedness theirH7451 →
אֲשֶׁ֣ר'a.SherwhichH834 →
עֲזָב֗וּנִי'a.za.Vu.nithey have forsaken meH5800 →
וַֽיְקַטְּרוּ֙vay.ka.te.Ruand they have made smokeH6999 →
לֵאלֹהִ֣יםle.lo.Himto godsH430 →
אֲחֵרִ֔ים'a.che.RimotherH312 →
וַיִּֽשְׁתַּחֲו֖וּvai.yish.ta.cha.Vuand they have bowed downH7812 →
לְמַעֲשֵׂ֥יle.ma.'a.Seito [the] products ofH4639 →
יְדֵיהֶֽם׃ye.dei.Hemhands theirH3027 →

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Jeremiah 2:13“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.Jeremiah 19:4because they have abandoned Me and made this a foreign place. They have burned incense in this place to other gods that neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah have ever known. They have filled this place with the blood of the innocent.Jeremiah 7:9Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not known,Revelation 9:20Now the rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the works of their hands. They did not stop worshiping demons and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk.Acts 7:41At that time they made a calf and offered a sacrifice to the idol, rejoicing in the works of their hands.Deuteronomy 28:20The LORD will send curses upon you, confusion and reproof in all to which you put your hand, until you are destroyed and quickly perish because of the wickedness you have committed in forsaking Him.Isaiah 2:8Their land is full of idols; they bow down to the work of their hands, to what their fingers have made.Jeremiah 4:12a wind too strong for that comes from Me. Now I also pronounce judgments against them.”Joshua 24:20If you forsake the LORD and serve foreign gods, He will turn and bring disaster on you and consume you, even after He has been good to you.”Hosea 8:6For this thing is from Israel—a craftsman made it, and it is not God. It will be broken to pieces, that calf of Samaria.Deuteronomy 31:16And the LORD said to Moses, “You will soon rest with your fathers, and these people will rise up and prostitute themselves with the foreign gods of the land they are entering. They will forsake Me and break the covenant I have made with them.Jeremiah 17:13O LORD, the hope of Israel, all who abandon You will be put to shame. All who turn away will be written in the dust, for they have abandoned the LORD, the fountain of living water.Hosea 11:2But the more I called Israel, the farther they departed from Me. They sacrificed to the Baals and burned incense to carved images.Isaiah 37:19They have cast their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods, but only wood and stone—the work of human hands.2 Kings 22:17because they have forsaken Me and burned incense to other gods, that they might provoke Me to anger with all the works of their hands. My wrath will be kindled against this place and will not be quenched.’Jeremiah 44:17Instead, we will do everything we vowed to do: We will burn incense to the Queen of Heaven and offer drink offerings to her, just as we, our fathers, our kings, and our officials did in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. At that time we had plenty of food and good things, and we saw no disaster.Matthew 23:35–36And so upon you will come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.Jeremiah 11:17The LORD of Hosts, who planted you, has decreed disaster against you on account of the evil that the house of Israel and the house of Judah have brought upon themselves, provoking Me to anger by burning incense to Baal.”

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