Jeremiah 8:5

KJV1611 – Modern English

Why then has this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? They hold fast to deceit, they refuse to return.

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  • Jer 9:6 : 6 Your habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, says the LORD.
  • Zech 7:11 : 11 But they refused to heed, and shrugged their shoulders, and stopped their ears, so they should not hear.
  • Hos 11:7 : 7 And my people are determined to backslide from me; though they called them to the Most High, none at all would exalt him.
  • 2 Thess 2:9-9 : 9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, 10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: 12 That they all might be condemned who did not believe the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
  • Heb 12:25 : 25 See that you do not refuse him who speaks. For if they did not escape who refused him who spoke on earth, much more shall we not escape if we turn away from him who speaks from heaven:
  • Jer 5:3 : 3 O LORD, are not your eyes upon the truth? You have stricken them, but they have not grieved; you have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.
  • Jer 5:27 : 27 As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they have become great, and grown rich.
  • Isa 1:20 : 20 But if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD has spoken it.
  • Isa 30:10 : 10 Who say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Do not prophesy to us right things, speak to us smooth things, prophesy deceits:
  • Isa 44:20 : 20 He feeds on ashes: a deceived heart has turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?
  • Jer 2:32 : 32 Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.
  • Jer 3:11-14 : 11 And the LORD said to me, Backsliding Israel has justified herself more than treacherous Judah. 12 Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, backsliding Israel, says the LORD; and I will not cause my anger to fall upon you: for I am merciful, says the LORD, and I will not keep anger forever. 13 Only acknowledge your iniquity, that you have transgressed against the LORD your God, and have scattered your ways to the strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed my voice, says the LORD. 14 Turn, O backsliding children, says the LORD; for I am married to you: and I will take you, one from a city, and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion:
  • Hos 4:16 : 16 For Israel is stubborn like a stubborn calf: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large space.
  • Rev 2:25 : 25 But hold fast what you have until I come.
  • Prov 4:13 : 13 Take firm hold of instruction; do not let her go: keep her; for she is your life.
  • 1 Thess 5:21 : 21 Test all things; hold fast what is good.
  • Jer 7:24-26 : 24 But they did not listen, nor incline their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward. 25 Since the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt to this day I have even sent to you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them: 26 Yet they did not listen to me, nor incline their ear, but stiffened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.

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    4Moreover you shall say to them, Thus says the LORD; Shall they fall and not rise? Shall he turn away and not return?

  • Jer 8:6
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    6I 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.

  • Jer 3:10-12
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    10And yet for all this, her treacherous sister Judah has not turned to me with her whole heart, but in pretension, says the LORD.

    11And the LORD said to me, Backsliding Israel has justified herself more than treacherous Judah.

    12Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, backsliding Israel, says the LORD; and I will not cause my anger to fall upon you: for I am merciful, says the LORD, and I will not keep anger forever.

  • Jer 5:23
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    23But this people has a revolting and a rebellious heart; they have revolted and gone.

  • Jer 14:10
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    10Thus says the LORD to this people, 'Thus they have loved to wander, they have not restrained their feet; therefore the LORD does not accept them; He will now remember their iniquity and punish their sins.'

  • Hos 11:7
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    7And my people are determined to backslide from me; though they called them to the Most High, none at all would exalt him.

  • Jer 11:10
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    10They have turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, who refused to hear my words; and they went after other gods to serve them: the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers.

  • Jer 9:6
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    6Your habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, says the LORD.

  • Jer 3:20-22
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    20Surely, as a wife treacherously departs from her husband, so have you dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, says the LORD.

    21A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping and supplications of the children of Israel: for they have perverted their way, and they have forgotten the LORD their God.

    22Return, you backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come to you; for you are the LORD our God.

  • Jer 5:3
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    3O LORD, are not your eyes upon the truth? You have stricken them, but they have not grieved; you have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.

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    2 verses
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    4Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children who are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel to anger, they have gone away backward.

    5Why should you be stricken any more? you will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

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    5For who shall have pity upon you, O Jerusalem? or who shall bemoan you? or who shall turn aside to ask how you are?

    6You have forsaken me, says the LORD, you have gone backward: therefore I will stretch out my hand against you, and destroy you; I am weary with repenting.

  • Zeph 1:6
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    6And those that have turned back from the LORD; and those that have not sought the LORD, nor inquired for Him.

  • Jer 7:24
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    24But they did not listen, nor incline their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.

  • Isa 31:6
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    6Turn to Him from whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted.

  • Jer 32:33
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    33And they have turned to me the back, and not the face: though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not listened to receive instruction.

  • Jer 5:11
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    11For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, says the LORD.

  • Job 34:27
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    27Because they turned back from Him and would not consider any of His ways.

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    7And I said after she had done all these things, Turn to me. But she did not return. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it.

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    31O generation, behold the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness to Israel? a land of darkness? why do my people say, We are lords; we will come no more to you?

  • Jer 18:11
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    11Now therefore go, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus says the LORD; Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a plan against you: return now everyone from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good.

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    5Thus says the LORD, What wrong have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have followed idols, and have become idolaters?

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    13And the LORD says, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, nor walked in it;

  • Lam 1:8
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    8Jerusalem has grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that honored her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yes, she sighs, and turns backward.

  • Jer 5:7
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    7How shall I pardon you for this? Your children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses.

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    13For the people do not turn to him who strikes them, nor do they seek the LORD of hosts.

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    8For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen, because their speech and their actions are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of His glory.

  • 2 Chr 29:6
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    6For our fathers have trespassed, and done evil in the eyes of the LORD our God, and have forsaken Him, and turned away from the dwelling place of the LORD, and turned their backs.

  • Hos 5:4
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    4They will not direct their deeds to turn to their God: for the spirit of prostitution is in the midst of them, and they have not known the LORD.

  • Mal 3:7
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    7Even from the days of your fathers you have gone away from my ordinances and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you, says the LORD of hosts. But you said, 'In what way shall we return?'.

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    14Turn, O backsliding children, says the LORD; for I am married to you: and I will take you, one from a city, and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion:

  • Isa 30:9
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    9That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children who will not hear the law of the LORD:

  • Jer 15:19
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    19Therefore thus says the LORD, If you return, then I will bring you again, and you shall stand before me: and if you take forth the precious from the vile, you shall be as my mouth: let them return to you; but return not you to them.

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    5They said, 'Turn now every one from his evil way and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that the LORD has given to you and to your fathers forever and ever:

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    28But you shall say to them, This is a nation that does not obey the voice of the LORD their God, nor receive correction: truth has perished, and is cut off from their mouth.

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    5Why have I seen them dismayed and turned back? Their mighty ones are beaten down, and have fled quickly, and do not look back: for fear is all around, says the LORD.

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    19Your own wickedness shall correct you, and your backslidings shall reprove you: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that you have forsaken the LORD your God, and that my fear is not in you, says the Lord GOD of hosts.

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    17O LORD, why have you made us to stray from your ways, and hardened our heart from your fear? Return for your servants' sake, the tribes of your inheritance.