Jeremiah 5:23

Bible in Basic English (1941)

But the heart of this people is uncontrolled and turned away from me; they are broken loose and gone.

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 6:28 : 28 All of them are turned away, going about with false stories; they are brass and iron: they are all workers of deceit.
  • Deut 21:18 : 18 If a man has a son who is hard-hearted and uncontrolled, who gives no attention to the voice of his father and mother, and will not be ruled by them, though they give him punishment:
  • Ps 95:10 : 10 For forty years I was angry with this generation, and said, They are a people whose hearts are turned away from me, for they have no knowledge of my ways;
  • Isa 1:5 : 5 Why will you have more and more punishment? why keep on in your evil ways? Every head is tired and every heart is feeble.
  • Isa 31:6 : 6 Come back to him who has been so deeply sinned against by the children of Israel.
  • Jer 5:5 : 5 I will go to the great men and have talk with them; for they have knowledge of the way of the Lord and of the behaviour desired by their God. But as for these, their one purpose is a broken yoke and burst bands.
  • Jer 17:9 : 9 The heart is a twisted thing, not to be searched out by man: who is able to have knowledge of it?
  • Hos 4:8 : 8 The sin of my people is like food to them; and their desire is for their wrongdoing.
  • Hos 11:7 : 7 My people are given up to sinning against me; though their voice goes up on high, no one will be lifting them up.
  • Heb 3:12 : 12 My brothers, take care that there is not by chance in any one of you an evil heart without belief, turning away from the living God:

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  • Jer 8:5
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    5Why do these people of Jerusalem go back, for ever turning away? they will not give up their deceit, they will not come back.

  • Jer 7:24
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    24But they took no note and did not give ear, but were guided by the thoughts and the pride of their evil hearts, going back and not forward.

  • Isa 30:9
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    9For they are an uncontrolled people, false-hearted, who will not give ear to the teaching of the Lord:

  • Isa 1:4-5
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    4O nation full of sin, a people weighted down with crime, a generation of evil-doers, false-hearted children: they have gone away from the Lord, they have no respect for the Holy One of Israel, their hearts are turned back from him.

    5Why will you have more and more punishment? why keep on in your evil ways? Every head is tired and every heart is feeble.

  • Hos 5:2
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    2They have gone deep in the evil ways of Shittim, but I am the judge of all.

  • Jer 14:10
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    10This is what the Lord has said about this people: Even so they have been glad to go from the right way; they have not kept their feet from wandering, so the Lord has no pleasure in them; now he will keep their wrongdoing in mind and send punishment for their sins.

  • Jer 13:10
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    10These evil people who say they will not give ear to my words, who go on in the pride of their hearts and have become servants and worshippers of other gods, will become like this band which is of no use for anything.

  • Jer 5:20-21
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    20Say this openly in Jacob and give it out in Judah, saying,

    21Give ear now to this, O foolish people without sense; who have eyes but see nothing, and ears without the power of hearing:

  • Jer 9:13-14
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    13And the Lord said, Because they have given up my law which I put before them, giving no attention to my voice and not being guided by it;

    14But they have been walking in the pride of their hearts, going after the Baals, as their fathers gave them teaching.

  • Isa 65:2
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    2All day my hands have been stretched out to an uncontrolled people, who go in an evil way, after the purposes of their hearts;

  • Isa 29:13
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    13And the Lord said, because this people come near to me with their mouths, and give honour to me with their lips, but their heart is far from me, and their fear of me is false, a rule given them by the teaching of men;

  • Jer 11:10
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    10They are turned back to the sins of their fathers, who would not give ear to my words; they have gone after other gods and become their servants: the people of Israel and the people of Judah have not kept the agreement which I made with their fathers.

  • Job 34:27
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    27Because they did not go after him, and took no note of his ways,

  • Isa 59:13
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    13We have gone against the Lord, and been false to him, turning away from our God, our words have been uncontrolled, and in our hearts are thoughts of deceit.

  • Jer 11:8
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    8But they gave no attention and did not give ear, but they went on, every man in the pride of his evil heart: so I sent on them all the curses in this agreement, which I gave them orders to keep, but they did not.

  • Jer 15:6
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    6You have given me up, says the Lord, you have gone back: so my hand is stretched out against you for your destruction; I am tired of changing my purpose.

  • Jer 2:5
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    5These are the words of the Lord: What evil have your fathers seen in me that they have gone far from me, and, walking after what is false, have become false?

  • Lam 5:22
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    22But you have quite given us up; you are full of wrath against us.

  • Hos 11:7
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    7My people are given up to sinning against me; though their voice goes up on high, no one will be lifting them up.

  • Deut 9:13
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    13And then the Lord said to me, I have seen that this people is stiff-necked:

  • Neh 9:26
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    26But they were hard-hearted, and went against your authority, turning their backs on your law, and putting to death your prophets, who gave witness against them with the purpose of turning them back again to you, and they did much to make you angry.

  • Jer 16:12
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    12And you have done worse evil than your fathers; for see, every one of you is guided by the pride of his evil heart, so as not to give ear to me:

  • Isa 31:6
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    6Come back to him who has been so deeply sinned against by the children of Israel.

  • Neh 9:16
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    16But they and our fathers, in their pride, made their necks stiff, and gave no attention to your orders,

  • Jer 6:28
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    28All of them are turned away, going about with false stories; they are brass and iron: they are all workers of deceit.

  • Jer 3:20
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    20Truly, as a wife is false to her husband, so have you been false to me, O Israel, says the Lord.

  • Jer 5:11
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    11For the people of Israel and the people of Judah have been very false to me, says the Lord.

  • Jer 5:24
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    24And they do not say in their hearts, Now let us give worship to our God, who gives the rain, the winter and the spring rain, at the right time; who keeps for us the ordered weeks of the grain-cutting.

  • Hos 5:4
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    4Their works will not let them come back to their God, for a false spirit is in them and they have no knowledge of the Lord.

  • 2 Chr 29:6
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    6For our fathers have done evil, sinning in the eyes of the Lord our God, and have given him up, turning away their faces from the house of the Lord, and turning their backs on him.

  • Jer 2:13
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    13For my people have done two evils; they have given up me, the fountain of living waters, and have made for themselves water-holes, cut out from the rock, broken water-holes, of no use for storing water.

  • Jer 15:1
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    1Then the Lord said to me, Even if Moses and Samuel came before me, I would have no desire for this people: send them away from before me, and let them go.

  • Num 32:15
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    15For if you are turned away from him, he will send them wandering again in the waste land; and you will be the cause of the destruction of all this people.

  • Ps 78:8
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    8And not be like their fathers, a stiff-necked and uncontrolled generation; a generation whose heart was hard, whose spirit was not true to God.

  • Hos 5:6
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    6They will go, with their flocks and their herds, in search of the Lord, but they will not see him; he has taken himself out of their view.

  • Jer 2:31
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    31O generation, see the word of the Lord. Have I been a waste land to Israel? or a land of dark night? why do my people say, We have got loose, we will not come to you again?

  • Hos 7:13-14
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    13May trouble be theirs! for they have gone far away from me; and destruction, for they have been sinning against me; I was ready to be their saviour, but they said false words against me.

    14And they have not made prayer to me in their hearts, but they make loud cries on their beds; they are cutting themselves for food and wine, they are turned against me.

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    12So I gave them up to the desires of their hearts; that they might go after their evil purposes.

  • Deut 9:24
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    24From the day when I first had knowledge of you, you have gone against the word of the Lord.

  • 2 Kgs 17:14
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    14And they did not give ear, but became stiff-necked, like their fathers who had no faith in the Lord their God.

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    20And the wrath of the Lord was burning against Israel, and he said, Because this nation has not been true to my agreement which I made with their fathers, and has not given ear to my voice;

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    23But they gave no attention and would not give ear, but they made their necks stiff so that they might not give ear and might not get teaching.

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    18Your ways and your doings have made these things come on you; this is your sin; truly it is bitter, going deep into your heart.

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    17They keep on saying to those who have no respect for the word of the Lord, You will have peace; and to everyone who goes on his way in the pride of his heart, they say, No evil will come to you.