Jeremiah 8:5

Bible in Basic English 1965

Why do these people of Jerusalem go back, for ever turning away? they will not give up their deceit, they will not come back.

Cross References

Proverbs 4:13

Take learning in your hands, do not let her go: keep her, for she is your life.

Isaiah 1:20

But if your hearts are turned against me, I will send destruction on you by the sword; so the Lord has said.

Isaiah 30:10

Who say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Do not give us word of what is true, but say false things to give us pleasure:

Isaiah 44:20

As for him whose food is the dust of a dead fire, he has been turned from the way by a twisted mind, so that he is unable to keep himself safe by saying, What I have here in my hand is false.

Jeremiah 14:7

Though our sins give witness against us, do something, O Lord, for the honour of your name: for again and again we have been turned away from you, we have done evil against you.

Jeremiah 2:32

Is it possible for a virgin to put out of her memory her ornaments, or a bride her robes? but my people have put me out of their memories for unnumbered days.

Jeremiah 3:5

Will he be angry for ever? will he keep his wrath to the end? These things you have said, and have done evil and have had your way.

Jeremiah 5:27

As the fowl-house is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: for this reason they have become great and have got wealth.

Jeremiah 5:3

O Lord, do not your eyes see good faith? you have given them punishment, but they were not troubled; you have sent destruction on them, but they did not take your teaching to heart: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they would not come back.

Jeremiah 5:6

And so a lion from the woods will put them to death, a wolf of the waste land will make them waste, a leopard will keep watch on their towns, and everyone who goes out from them will be food for the beasts; because of the great number of their sins and the increase of their wrongdoing.

Jeremiah 6:17

And I put watchmen over you, saying, Give attention to the sound of the horn; but they said, We will not give attention.

Jeremiah 6:19

Give ear, O earth: see, I will make evil come on this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not given attention to my words, and they would have nothing to do with my law.

Jeremiah 9:6

There is wrong on wrong, deceit on deceit; they have given up the knowledge of me, says the Lord.

Daniel 9:11

And all Israel have been sinners against your law, turning away so as not to give ear to your voice: and the curse has been let loose on us, and the oath recorded in the law of Moses, the servant of God, for we have done evil against him.

Hosea 11:5

He will go back to the land of Egypt and the Assyrian will be his king, because they would not come back to me.

Hosea 11:7

My people are given up to sinning against me; though their voice goes up on high, no one will be lifting them up.

Hosea 13:2

And now their sins are increased; they have made themselves a metal image, false gods from their silver, after their designs, all of them the work of the metal-workers; they say of them, Let them give offerings, let men give kisses to the oxen.

Hosea 4:16

For Israel is uncontrolled, like a cow which may not be controlled; now will the Lord give them food like a lamb in a wide place.

Zechariah 7:11

But they would not give attention, turning their backs and stopping their ears from hearing;

John 5:40

I do not take honour from men;

1 Thessalonians 5:21

Let all things be tested; keep to what is good;

Hebrews 12:25

See that you give ear to his voice which comes to you. For if those whose ears were shut to the voice which came to them on earth did not go free from punishment, what chance have we of going free if we give no attention to him whose voice comes from heaven?

Revelation 2:25

But what you have, keep safe till I come.