Why do you want more beatings? Why do you keep on rebelling? The whole head is hurt, and the whole heart is sick.
Jeremiah 5:23 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised But these people have stubborn and rebellious hearts. They have turned aside and have gone away. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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. |
Why do you want more beatings? Why do you keep on rebelling? The whole head is hurt, and the whole heart is sick.
The heart is more deceitful than anything else, and incurable #– #who can understand it?
They have her surrounded like those who guard a field, because she has rebelled against me. This is the Lord’s declaration.
I will go to the powerful and speak to them. Surely they know the way of the Lord, the justice of their God. However, these also had broken the yoke and torn off the chains.
All are stubborn rebels, spreading slander. They are bronze and iron; all of them are corrupt.
My people are bent on turning from me. Though they call to him on high, he will not exalt them at all.
They feed on the sin of my people; they have an appetite for their iniquity.
Woe to the city that is rebellious , and defiled, the oppressive city!
‘If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father or mother and doesn’t listen to them even after they discipline him,
For I know how rebellious and stiff-necked you are. If you are rebelling against the Lord now, while I am still alive, how much more will you rebel after I am dead!
Watch out, brothers and sisters, so that there won’t be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.