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Jeremiah 8:5

American King James Version (1999)

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

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Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is your life.

But if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD has spoken it.

Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not to us right things, speak to us smooth things, prophesy deceits:

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?

O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, do you it for your name's sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against you.

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

Will he reserve his anger for ever? will he keep it to the end? Behold, you have spoken and done evil things as you could.

As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.

O LORD, are not your eyes on 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.

Why a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goes out there shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased.

Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Listen to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not listen.

Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil on this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not listened to my words, nor to my law, but rejected it.

Your habitation is in the middle of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, said the LORD.

Yes, all Israel have transgressed your law, even by departing, that they might not obey your voice; therefore the curse is poured on us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against him.

He shall not return into the land of Egypt, and the Assyrian shall be his king, because they refused to return.

And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him.

And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, and idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves.

For Israel slides back as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place.

But they refused to listen, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.

And you will not come to me, that you might have life.

Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.

See that you refuse not him that speaks. For if they escaped not who refused him that spoke on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaks from heaven:

But that which you have already hold fast till I come.




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