and that they should not be like their ancestors, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation whose heart was not steadfast, whose spirit was not faithful to God.
Jeremiah 5:23 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 But this people has a stubborn and rebellious heart; they have turned aside and gone away. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But these people have hearts that draw back from God and wills that rebel against Him; they have revolted and quit His service and have gone away [into idolatry]. American Standard Version (1901) But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone. Common English Bible And yet the people have stubborn and rebellious hearts; they turn and go their own way. Catholic Public Domain Version But the heart of this people has become incredulous and provocative; they have turned away and departed. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But the heart of this people is become hard of belief and provoking: they are revolted and gone away. |
and that they should not be like their ancestors, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation whose heart was not steadfast, whose spirit was not faithful to God.
For forty years I loathed that generation and said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they do not regard my ways.”
Why do you seek further beatings? Why do you continue to rebel? The whole head is injured, and the whole heart faint.
The heart is devious above all else; it is perverse— who can understand it?
They have closed in around her like watchers of a field because she has rebelled against me, says the Lord.
Let me go to the rich and speak to them; surely they know the way of the Lord, the law of their God.” But they all alike had broken the yoke; they had burst the bonds.
They are all stubbornly rebellious, going about with slanders; they are bronze and iron; all of them act corruptly.
My people are bent on turning away from me. To the Most High they call, but he does not raise them up at all.
“If someone has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey his father and mother, who does not heed them when they discipline him,
For I know well how rebellious and stubborn you are. If you already have been so rebellious toward the Lord while I am still alive among you, how much more after my death!
Take care, brothers and sisters, that none of you may have an evil, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.