Jeremiah 8:6

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.

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  • Ps 14:2 : 2 The Lord looked downe from heauen vpon the children of men, to see if there were any that would vnderstand, and seeke God.
  • Ezek 22:30 : 30 And I sought for a man among them, that should make vp the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it, but I found none.
  • Mic 7:2 : 2 The good man is perished out of the earth, and there is none righteous among men: they all lye in wayte for blood: euery man hunteth his brother with a net.
  • Mal 3:16 : 16 Then spake they that feared the Lorde, euery one to his neighbour, and the Lorde hearkened & heard it, and a booke of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought vpon his Name.
  • 2 Pet 3:9 : 9 The Lord of that promes is not slacke (as some men count slackenesse) but is pacient toward vs, and would haue no man to perish, but would all men to come to repentance.
  • Job 39:19-25 : 19 (39:22) Hast thou giuen the horse strength? or couered his necke with neying? 20 (39:23) Hast thou made him afraid as the grashopper? his strong neying is fearefull. 21 (39:24) He diggeth in the valley, and reioyceth in his strength: he goeth foorth to meete the harnest man. 22 (39:25) He mocketh at feare, and is not afraid, and turneth not backe from the sworde, 23 (39:26) Though the quiuer rattle against him, the glittering speare and the shield. 24 (39:27) He swalloweth the ground for fearcenes and rage, and he beleeueth not that it is the noise of the trumpet. 25 (39:28) He sayth among the trumpets, Ha, ha: hee smelleth the battell afarre off, and the noyse of the captaines, and the shouting.
  • Rev 9:20 : 20 And the remnant of the men which were not killed by these plagues, repented not of the works of their handes that they should not worship deuils, and idoles of golde and of siluer, and of brasse, and of stone, and of wood, which neither can see, neither heare nor goe.
  • Luke 15:17-19 : 17 Then he came to him selfe, & said, Howe many hired seruaunts at my fathers haue bread ynough, and I die for hunger? 18 I wil rise and goe to my father, and say vnto him, Father, I haue sinned against heaue, and before thee, 19 And am no more worthy to be called thy sonne: make me as one of thy hired seruants.
  • Job 10:2 : 2 I will say vnto God, Condemne mee not: shew me, wherefore thou contendest with mee.
  • Job 33:27-28 : 27 He looketh vpon men, and if one say, I haue sinned, and peruerted righteousnesse, and it did not profite me, 28 He will deliuer his soule from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.
  • Hag 1:5 : 5 Now therefore thus saith ye Lord of hostes, Consider your owne wayes in your hearts.
  • Hag 1:7 : 7 Thus sayth the Lorde of hostes, Consider your owne wayes in your hearts.
  • Isa 30:18 : 18 Yet therefore will the Lord waite, that he may haue mercy vpon you, and therefore wil he be exalted, that hee may haue compassion vpon you: for the Lorde is the God of iudgement. Blessed are all they that waite for him.
  • Isa 59:16 : 16 And when he sawe that there was no man, hee wondered that none woulde offer him selfe. Therefore his arme did saue it, and his righteousnes it selfe did sustaine it.
  • Jer 2:24-25 : 24 And as a wilde asse, vsed to the wildernesse, that snuffeth vp the winde by occasion at her pleasure: who can turne her backe? all they that seeke her, will not wearie themselues, but wil finde her in her moneth. 25 Keepe thou thy feete from barenes, and thy throte from thirst: but thou saidest desperately, No, for I haue loued strangers, and them will I followe.
  • Jer 5:1 : 1 Rvnne to and fro by the streetes of Ierusalem, and beholde nowe, and knowe, and inquire in the open places thereof, if ye can finde a man, or if there be any that executeth iudgement, and seeketh the trueth, and I will spare it.
  • Ezek 18:28 : 28 Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions that hee hath committed, he shall surely liue and shall not die.

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