Verse 5

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

Referenced Verses

  • Jer 9:6 : 6 Your habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, says Yahweh.
  • Zech 7:11 : 11 But they refused to listen, and turned their backs, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear.
  • Hos 11:7 : 7 My people are determined to turn from me. Though they call to the Most High, he certainly won't exalt them.
  • 2 Thess 2:9-9 : 9 even he whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, 10 and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn't receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 Because of this, God sends them a working of error, that they should believe a lie; 12 that they all might be judged who didn't believe the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
  • Heb 12:25 : 25 See that you don't refuse him who speaks. For if they didn't escape when they refused him who warned on the Earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven,
  • Jer 5:3 : 3 O Yahweh, don't your eyes look on truth? You have stricken them, but they were 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 grew rich.
  • Isa 1:20 : 20 but if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword; for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it."
  • Isa 30:10 : 10 who tell the seers, "Don't see!" and to the prophets, "Don't prophesy to us right things. Tell us pleasant things. Prophesy deceits.
  • Isa 44:20 : 20 He feeds on ashes. A deceived heart has turned him aside; and he can't deliver his soul, nor say, "Isn't there a lie in my right hand?"
  • Jer 2:32 : 32 "Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me for days without number.
  • Jer 3:11-14 : 11 Yahweh said to me, "Backsliding Israel has shown herself more righteous than treacherous Judah. 12 Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, 'Return, you backsliding Israel,' says Yahweh; 'I will not look in anger on you; for I am merciful,' says Yahweh. 'I will not keep [anger] forever. 13 Only acknowledge your iniquity, that you have transgressed against Yahweh your God, and have scattered your ways to the strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed my voice,' says Yahweh." 14 "Return, backsliding children," says Yahweh; "for I am a husband to you. I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion.
  • Hos 4:16 : 16 For Israel has behaved extremely stubbornly, like a stubborn heifer. Then how will Yahweh feed them like a lamb in a meadow.
  • Rev 2:25 : 25 Nevertheless, hold that which you have firmly until I come.
  • 1 Thess 5:21 : 21 Test all things, and hold firmly that which is good.
  • Prov 4:13 : 13 Take firm hold of instruction. Don't let her go. Keep her, for she is your life.
  • John 5:40 : 40 Yet you will not come to me, that you may have life.
  • Jer 7:24-26 : 24 But they didn't listen nor turn their ear, but walked in [their own] counsels [and] in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward. 25 Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt to this day, I have sent to you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them: 26 yet they didn't listen to me, nor inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff: they did worse than their fathers.