And they shall not be as their fathers, a generation turning away and bitter, a generation it prepared not its heart, and its spirit was not firm with God.
Jeremiah 5:23 - Julia E. Smith Translation 1876 And to this people was a heart turning aside and perverse, and they turned aside and departed. 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 they shall not be as their fathers, a generation turning away and bitter, a generation it prepared not its heart, and its spirit was not firm with God.
Forty years I shall loathe to the generation, and saying, A people they wandering in heart, and they knew not my ways:
For what shall ye be yet struck? will ye add apostasy? every head for sickness, and every heart sick
Turn ye back to him against whom the sons of Israel made a deep turning away.
The heart is deceitful above all, and man himself, who shall know him?
As watching a field they were against her from round about; for she embittered against me, says Jehovah.
I will go for myself to the great ones, and I will speak to them; for they knew the way of Jehovah, the judgment of their God: surely they together broke the yoke and tore away the bonds.
They are all turning aside, degenerate shoots, going about tale-bearing: brass and iron, they are destroyers all of them.
And my people are bent to turning away from me: and they will call together to the Most High; he will not exalt them.
They will eat up the sin of my people, and they will lift up their soul to their iniquity.
If there shall be to a man a son stubborn and rebellious, he not hearing to the voice of his father and to the voice of his mother, and they chastised him, and he will not hear to them:
For I knew thy rebellion and thy hard neck: behold, in my yet living with you this day, ye were rebelling against Jehovah; and much more after my death.
See, brethren, lest there shall be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in removing away from the living God.