Jeremiah 8:5 - Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵ Why then is this people in Jerusalem turned away with a stubborn revolting? They have laid hold on lying and have refused to return.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ Why then is this people of Jerusalem turned away with a perpetual turning away [from Me]? They hold fast to deceit (idolatry); they refuse to repent and return [to God].

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.

Common English Bible

⁵ Why then does this people, rebellious Jerusalem, persistently turn away from me? They cling to deceit and refuse to return.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ Then why have this people in Jerusalem turned away with a contentious loathing? They have taken hold of what is false, and they are not willing to return.

English Standard Version 2016

⁵ Why then has this people turned away in perpetual backsliding? They hold fast to deceit; they refuse to return.

Jeremiah 8:5 Tagairtí Cros

Proverbs 4:13

Take hold on instruction, leave it not: keep it, because it is thy life.

Isaiah 1:20

But if you will not, and will provoke me to wrath: the sword shall devour you because the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

Isaiah 30:10

Who say to the seers: See not. And to them that behold: Behold not for us those things that are right. Speak unto us pleasant things: see errors for us.

Isaiah 44:20

Part thereof is ashes. His foolish heart adoreth it, and he will not save his soul, nor say: Perhaps there is a lie in my right hand.

Jeremiah 14:7

If our iniquities have testified against us, O Lord, do thou it for thy name's sake, for our rebellions are many: we have sinned against thee.

Jeremiah 2:32

Will a virgin forget her ornament, or a bride her stomacher? But my people hath forgotten me days without number.

Jeremiah 3:5

Wilt thou be angry for ever, or wilt thou continue until the end? Behold, thou hast spoken, and hast done evil things, and hast been able.

Jeremiah 5:27

As a net is full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit: therefore are they become great and enriched.

Jeremiah 5:3

O Lord, thy eyes are upon truth: thou hast struck them, and they have not grieved: thou hast bruised them, and they have refused to receive correction. They have made their faces harder than the rock and they have refused to return.

Jeremiah 5:6

Wherefore a lion out of the wood hath slain them, a wolf in the evening hath spoiled them, a leopard watcheth for their cities: every one that shall go out thence shall be taken, because their transgressions are multiplied, their rebellions are strengthened.

Jeremiah 6:17

And I appointed watchmen over you, saying: Hearken ye to the sound of the trumpet. And they said: We will not hearken.

Jeremiah 6:19

Hear, O earth: Behold, I will bring evils upon this people, the fruits of their own thoughts: because they have not heard my words and they have cast away my law.

Jeremiah 9:6

Thy habitation is in the midst of deceit: Through deceit they have refused to know me, saith the Lord.

Hosea 11:5

He shall not return into the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be his king: because they would not be converted.

Hosea 11:7

And my people shall long for my return: but a yoke shall be put upon them together, which shall not be taken off.

Hosea 13:2

And now they have sinned more and more: and they have made to themselves a molten thing of their silver as the likeness of idols: the whole is the work of craftsmen: to these that say: Sacrifice men, ye that adore calves.

Hosea 4:16

For Israel hath gone astray like a wanton heifer: now will the Lord feed them, as a lamb in a spacious place.

Zechariah 7:11

But they would not hearken, and they turned away the shoulder to depart: and they stopped their ears, not to hear.

John 5:40

And you will not come to me that you may have life.

1 Thessalonians 5:21

But prove all things; hold fast that which is good.

Hebrews 12:25

See that you refuse him not that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spoke upon the earth, much more shall not we, that turn away from him that speaketh to us from heaven.

Revelation 2:25

Yet that, which you have, hold fast till I come.