Jeremiah 8:6

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

I have listened and heard, but they do not speak what is right. No one repents of their wickedness, saying, ‘What have I done?’ Everyone turns to their own course, like a horse charging into battle.

Additional Resources

Other Translations

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright: no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to his course, as the horse rusheth into the battle.

  • KJV1611 – Modern English

    I listened and heard, but they did not speak rightly: no man repented of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? Everyone turned to his own course, like a horse charging into battle.

  • King James Version 1611 (Original)

    I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright: no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to his course, as the horse rusheth into the battle.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright: no man repenteth him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turneth to his course, as a horse that rusheth headlong in the battle.

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright: no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to his course, as the horse rusheth into the battle.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    For I haue loked, and considered: but there is no ma, that speaketh a good worde: there is no man, that taketh repetaunce for his synne, that will so moch as saye: wherfore haue I done this? But euery man (as soone as he is turned backe) runneth forth still, like a wilde horse in a battayl.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    I hearkened and heard, but none spake aright: no man repented him of his wickednesse, saying, What haue I done? euery one turned to their race, as the horse rusheth into the battell.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    For I haue loked and considered, but there is no man that speaketh a good worde, there is no man that taketh repentaunce for his sinne, that wyll so muche say, what haue I done? but euerie man turneth to his owne course, like a fierce horse headlong to the battaile.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    I hearkened and heard, [but] they spake not aright: no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to his course, as the horse rusheth into the battle.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    I listened and heard, but they didn't speak aright: no man repents him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? everyone turns to his course, as a horse that rushes headlong in the battle.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    I have given attention, yea, I hearken, They do not speak right, No man hath repented of his wickedness, Saying, What have I done? Every one hath turned to his courses, As a horse is rushing into battle.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright: no man repenteth him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turneth to his course, as a horse that rusheth headlong in the battle.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright: no man repenteth him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turneth to his course, as a horse that rusheth headlong in the battle.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    I took note and gave ear, but no one said what is right: no man had regret for his evil-doing, saying, What have I done? everyone goes off on his way like a horse rushing to the fight.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    I listened and heard, but they didn't speak aright: no man repents him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? everyone turns to his course, as a horse that rushes headlong in the battle.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    I have listened to them very carefully, but they do not speak honestly. None of them regrets the evil he has done. None of them says,“I have done wrong!” All of them persist in their own wayward course like a horse charging recklessly into battle.

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 14:2 : 2 The LORD looks down from heaven on all humanity to see if there is anyone who understands, anyone who seeks after God.
  • Ezek 22:30 : 30 I searched for someone among them who would build up the wall and stand in the gap before me on behalf of the land so that I would not destroy it, but I found no one.
  • Mic 7:2 : 2 The godly have perished from the land, and there is no upright person among humanity. All of them lie in wait for blood; they hunt each other with nets.
  • Mal 3:16 : 16 Then those who feared the Lord spoke to one another, and the Lord paid attention and listened. A book of remembrance was written before him for those who fear the Lord and honor his name.
  • 2 Pet 3:9 : 9 The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wanting any to perish but for all to come to repentance.
  • Job 39:19-25 : 19 Do you give strength to the horse or clothe its neck with a flowing mane? 20 Do you make it leap like a locust, its majestic snorting filling the air with terror? 21 It paws eagerly in the valley, rejoices in its strength, and charges into the battle. 22 It laughs at fear, unshaken and undeterred by the sword. 23 The quiver rattles against it, along with the flashing spear and javelin. 24 With fierce excitement and rage, it devours the ground, unable to stand still when it hears the trumpet sound. 25 At the sound of the trumpet, it says, 'Aha!' It scents the battle from afar, the thunder of commanders and the war cries.
  • Rev 9:20 : 20 The rest of humanity, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands. They did not stop worshiping demons and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood—idols that cannot see or hear or walk.
  • Luke 15:17-19 : 17 But when he came to his senses, he said, 'How many of my father's hired servants have more than enough bread, but here I am dying from hunger! 18 I will rise up and go to my father and say to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you. 19 I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Treat me as one of your hired servants.’
  • Job 10:2 : 2 I will say to God: Do not condemn me; tell me why You contend with me.
  • Job 33:27-28 : 27 They sing before others and say, 'I have sinned and perverted what was right, but it was not repaid to me.' 28 He redeemed my soul from going down to the pit, and my life will see the light.
  • Hag 1:5 : 5 Now, this is what the LORD of Hosts says: Consider carefully your ways.
  • Hag 1:7 : 7 This is what the LORD of Hosts says: Consider carefully your ways.
  • Isa 30:18 : 18 Yet the LORD longs to be gracious to you; therefore he will rise up to show you compassion. For the LORD is a God of justice. Blessed are all who wait for him!
  • Isa 59:16 : 16 He saw that there was no one; He was appalled that there was no intercessor. So His own arm brought salvation, and His righteousness sustained Him.
  • Jer 2:24-25 : 24 You are like a wild donkey accustomed to the wilderness, sniffing the wind in her desire. Who can restrain her in her mating season? None of those seeking her will grow weary; in her month, they will find her. 25 Keep your feet from going bare and your throat from thirst. But you said, ‘It’s hopeless! I love foreigners, and I will follow them.’
  • Jer 5:1 : 1 Roam through the streets of Jerusalem, look and understand, search in her squares. If you find one person who acts justly and seeks truth, I will forgive the city.
  • Ezek 18:28 : 28 Because they consider all the offenses they have committed and turn away from them, they will surely live; they will not die.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Jer 8:4-5
    2 verses
    77%

    4You shall say to them, ‘This is what the LORD says: Do people fall and not get up? If they turn away, do they not return?’

    5Why then has this people, Jerusalem, turned away in perpetual backsliding? They hold tightly to deceit; they refuse to return.

  • Jer 7:24
    73%

    24But they did not listen or incline their ear; instead, they walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil hearts. They went backward, not forward.

  • Jer 5:7-8
    2 verses
    72%

    7How can I pardon you? Your children have forsaken Me and sworn by false gods. I satisfied them, but they committed adultery and gathered at the houses of prostitutes.

    8They were like well-fed, lusty stallions, each neighing for his neighbor's wife.

  • Jer 11:8
    72%

    8Yet they did not listen or incline their ear; instead, each one followed the stubbornness of their own evil heart. So I brought upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to obey but they did not.

  • Zech 1:4
    72%

    4Do not be like your ancestors, to whom the earlier prophets proclaimed: 'This is what the Lord of Hosts says: Turn now from your evil ways and your evil deeds.' But they would not listen or pay attention to me, declares the Lord.

  • Isa 30:16
    72%

    16You said, 'No, we will flee on horses'—therefore you will flee! And, 'We will ride on swift horses'—therefore your pursuers will be swift!

  • Jer 26:3
    72%

    3Perhaps they will listen and turn, each one, from their evil ways. Then I will relent concerning the disaster that I plan to bring on them because of the evil they have done.

  • Jer 46:5
    71%

    5Why do I see them terrified, retreating? Their warriors are beaten down; they flee in haste without looking back—terror is all around! declares the Lord.

  • Zeph 1:6
    71%

    6And I will remove those who turn back from following the Lord, who do not seek the Lord or inquire of Him.

  • Amos 6:12
    71%

    12Do horses run on rocky cliffs? Does one plow there with oxen? Yet you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness.

  • Job 34:27
    71%

    27Because they turned away from following Him and did not regard any of His ways,

  • Jer 18:10-12
    3 verses
    71%

    10But if it does evil in My sight by not listening to My voice, then I will relent concerning the good I had promised to bless it with.

    11And now, say to the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, ‘Thus says the Lord: Behold, I am shaping disaster against you and devising a plan against you. Turn now, each one from his evil way, and reform your ways and deeds.’

    12But they will say, ‘It’s no use. We will continue to follow our own plans, and each of us will act according to the stubbornness of his own evil heart.’

  • Isa 9:13
    71%

    13So the LORD will cut off from Israel both head and tail, both palm branch and reed in a single day.

  • Jer 6:17-19
    3 verses
    70%

    17I appointed watchmen over you and said, 'Listen to the sound of the trumpet!' But they said, 'We will not listen.'

    18Therefore hear, O nations; observe, O congregation, what is among them!

    19Hear, O earth! I am bringing disaster upon this people, the fruit of their schemes, because they have not listened to My words and have rejected My law.

  • Ezek 7:14
    70%

    14They have blown the trumpet and prepared everything, but no one goes out to battle, for my anger is against all their multitude.

  • Isa 59:8
    70%

    8The way of peace they do not know, and there is no justice in their ways. They have made their paths crooked; whoever walks in them does not know peace.

  • Jer 22:21
    70%

    21I spoke to you in your prosperity, but you said, 'I will not listen.' This has been your way since your youth; you have not obeyed me.

  • Jer 11:10-11
    2 verses
    70%

    10They have turned back to the sins of their ancestors, who refused to listen to my words. They have followed other gods to serve them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah have violated my covenant, which I made with their ancestors.

    11Therefore, this is what the LORD says: ‘I am bringing disaster upon them from which they cannot escape. Even though they will cry out to me, I will not listen to them.’

  • Nah 3:2
    70%

    2The sound of whips, the clatter of wheels, galloping horses, and jolting chariots.

  • Jer 6:10
    69%

    10To whom can I speak and give warning so they will listen? Their ears are closed, and they cannot pay attention. The word of the Lord is offensive to them; they take no pleasure in it.

  • Hos 11:7
    69%

    7My people are determined to turn from Me. Even though they call to the Most High, He will by no means exalt them together.

  • Zech 7:11
    69%

    11But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder. They stopped their ears so they would not hear.

  • Jer 6:23
    69%

    23They grasp bow and spear; they are cruel and show no mercy. Their sound roars like the sea, and they ride on horses, arrayed as men for battle against you, Daughter Zion.'

  • Jer 9:13
    69%

    13Instead, they followed the stubbornness of their hearts and went after the Baals, as their fathers taught them.

  • Jer 7:26
    69%

    26But they did not listen to me or incline their ear; instead, they stiffened their necks and did worse than their ancestors.

  • Jer 4:28-29
    2 verses
    69%

    28Because of this, the earth will mourn, and the heavens above will grow dark. For I have spoken, I have purposed, and I will not relent or turn back from it.

    29At the sound of the horsemen and archers, every city flees. They go into the thickets and climb among the rocks. The cities are abandoned, and no one lives in them.

  • Isa 13:14
    69%

    14Like a hunted gazelle, like sheep without a shepherd, each will return to his own people, each will flee to his own land.

  • Jer 35:17
    69%

    17Therefore, this is what the LORD, the God of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: 'Behold, I am bringing upon Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the disaster I have spoken against them because I spoke to them, but they did not listen; I called to them, but they did not answer.'

  • Jer 3:21
    69%

    21A voice is heard on the barren heights: the weeping and pleading of the people of Israel, because they have perverted their ways and have forgotten the LORD their God.

  • Jer 17:23
    69%

    23Yet they did not listen or incline their ear. They stiffened their necks and would not listen or take correction.

  • Zech 7:13
    69%

    13'Just as I called, and they did not listen, so when they call, I will not listen,' says the LORD of Hosts.

  • Jer 47:3
    69%

    3At the sound of galloping hooves of mighty horses, at the rumbling of their chariots and the roar of their wheels, fathers will not turn to help their children, for their hands will be exhausted.

  • Isa 65:12
    69%

    12I will destine you for the sword, and all of you will bow down to the slaughter, because when I called, you did not answer; when I spoke, you did not listen. You did evil in my sight and chose what I did not delight in.

  • Hos 7:14
    69%

    14They do not cry out to me from their hearts but wail on their beds. They gather together for grain and new wine but turn away from me.

  • Hab 1:8
    69%

    8Their horses are swifter than leopards, fiercer than evening wolves. Their horsemen charge ahead; their horsemen come from afar. They fly like an eagle swooping to devour.

  • Jer 14:10
    69%

    10This is what the LORD says about this people: They love to wander; they do not restrain their feet. So the LORD does not accept them; now He will remember their guilt and punish their sins.

  • Jer 44:5
    69%

    5But they did not listen or incline their ears to turn from their wickedness and to stop burning incense to other gods.

  • Ps 38:14
    68%

    14But I am like a deaf man who does not hear, and like a mute man who cannot open his mouth.

  • Zech 6:7
    68%

    7The strong horses went out, eager to go and patrol the earth. And He said, 'Go, patrol the earth.' So they patrolled the earth.

  • Jer 9:9
    68%

    9I will raise weeping and wailing for the mountains and a dirge for the pastures in the wilderness, because they are burned up and desolate; no one passes through, and cattle cannot be heard anymore—birds of the sky and animals alike have fled and are gone.

  • Isa 31:1
    68%

    1Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, relying on horses and trusting in chariots because they are many, and in horsemen because they are strong, but who do not look to the Holy One of Israel and do not seek the LORD.

  • Amos 2:15
    68%

    15The archer will not stand his ground, the swift-footed will not escape, and the horseman will not save his life.