Jeremiah 8:5 - New Revised Standard Version

⁵ Why then has this people turned away in perpetual backsliding? They have held fast to deceit, they have refused to return.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ Why then is this people of Jerusalem turned away with a perpetual turning away [from Me]? They hold fast to deceit (idolatry); they refuse to repent and return [to God].

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.

Common English Bible

⁵ Why then does this people, rebellious Jerusalem, persistently turn away from me? They cling to deceit and refuse to return.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ Then why have this people in Jerusalem turned away with a contentious loathing? They have taken hold of what is false, and they are not willing to return.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵ Why then is this people in Jerusalem turned away with a stubborn revolting? They have laid hold on lying and have refused to return.

Jeremiah 8:5 Cross References

Proverbs 4:13

Keep hold of instruction; do not let go; guard her, for she is your life.

Isaiah 1:20

but if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured by the sword; for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.

Isaiah 30:10

who say to the seers, “Do not see”; and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us what is right; speak to us smooth things, prophesy illusions,

Isaiah 44:20

He feeds on ashes; a deluded mind has led him astray, and he cannot save himself or say, “Is not this thing in my right hand a fraud?”

Jeremiah 14:7

Although our iniquities testify against us, act, O Lord, for your name's sake; our apostasies indeed are many, and we have sinned against you.

Jeremiah 2:32

Can a girl forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me, days without number.

Jeremiah 3:5

will he be angry forever, will he be indignant to the end?” This is how you have spoken, but you have done all the evil that you could.

Jeremiah 5:27

Like a cage full of birds, their houses are full of treachery; therefore they have become great and rich,

Jeremiah 5:3

O Lord, do your eyes not look for truth? You have struck them, but they felt no anguish; you have consumed them, but they refused to take correction. They have made their faces harder than rock; they have refused to turn back.

Jeremiah 5:6

Therefore a lion from the forest shall kill them, a wolf from the desert shall destroy them. A leopard is watching against their cities; everyone who goes out of them shall be torn in pieces— because their transgressions are many, their apostasies are great.

Jeremiah 6:17

Also I raised up sentinels for you: “Give heed to the sound of the trumpet!” But they said, “We will not give heed.”

Jeremiah 6:19

Hear, O earth; I am going to bring disaster on this people, the fruit of their schemes, because they have not given heed to my words; and as for my teaching, they have rejected it.

Jeremiah 9:6

Oppression upon oppression, deceit upon deceit! They refuse to know me, says the Lord.

Daniel 9:11

“All Israel has transgressed your law and turned aside, refusing to obey your voice. So the curse and the oath written in the law of Moses, the servant of God, have been poured out upon us, because we have sinned against you.

Hosea 11:5

They shall return to the land of Egypt, and Assyria shall be their king, because they have refused to return to me.

Hosea 11:7

My people are bent on turning away from me. To the Most High they call, but he does not raise them up at all.

Hosea 13:2

And now they keep on sinning and make a cast image for themselves, idols of silver made according to their understanding, all of them the work of artisans. “Sacrifice to these,” they say. People are kissing calves!

Hosea 4:16

Like a stubborn heifer, Israel is stubborn; can the Lord now feed them like a lamb in a broad pasture?

Zechariah 7:11

But they refused to listen, and turned a stubborn shoulder, and stopped their ears in order not to hear.

John 5:40

Yet you refuse to come to me to have life.

1 Thessalonians 5:21

but test everything; hold fast to what is good;

Hebrews 12:25

See that you do not refuse the one who is speaking; for if they did not escape when they refused the one who warned them on earth, how much less will we escape if we reject the one who warns from heaven!

Revelation 2:25

only hold fast to what you have until I come.