and that they should not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation whose heart was not steadfast, whose spirit was not faithful to God.
Jeremiah 5:23 - English Standard Version 2016 But this people has a stubborn and rebellious heart; they have turned aside and 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. |
and that they should not be like their fathers, 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 who go astray in their heart, and they have not known my ways.”
Why will you still be struck down? Why will you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
Turn to him from whom people have deeply revolted, O children of Israel.
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?
Like keepers of a field are they against her all around, because she has rebelled against me, declares the Lord.
I will go to the great and will speak to them, for they know the way of the Lord, the justice 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, and though they call out to the Most High, he shall not raise them up at all.
They feed on the sin of my people; they are greedy for their iniquity.
“If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and, though they discipline him, will not listen to them,
For I know how rebellious and stubborn you are. Behold, even today while I am yet alive with you, you have been rebellious against the Lord. How much more after my death!
Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God.