Jeremiah 8:5 - Hebrew Names version (HNV)

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

Jeremiah 8:5 Tagairtí Cros

Proverbs 4:13

Take firm hold of instruction. Don't let her go. Keep her, for she is your life.

Isaiah 1:20

but if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword; for the mouth of the LORD has spoken it.*

Isaiah 30:10

who tell the seers, *Don't see!* and to the prophets, *Don't prophesy to us right things. Tell us pleasant things. Prophesy deceits.

Isaiah 44:20

He feeds on ashes; a deceived heart has turned him aside; and he can't deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?

Jeremiah 14:7

Though our iniquities testify against us, work you for your name's sake, LORD; for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against you.

Jeremiah 2:32

Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.

Jeremiah 3:5

Will he retain [his anger] forever? will he keep it to the end? Behold, you have spoken and have done evil things, and have had your way.

Jeremiah 5:27

As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and grew rich.

Jeremiah 5:3

O LORD, don't your eyes look on truth? you have stricken them, but they were not grieved; you have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.

Jeremiah 5:6

Therefore a lion out of the forest shall kill them, a wolf of the evenings shall destroy them, a leopard shall watch against their cities; everyone who goes out there shall be torn in pieces; because their transgressions are many, [and] their backsliding is increased.

Jeremiah 6:17

I set watchmen over you, [saying], Listen to the sound of the shofar; but they said, We will not listen.

Jeremiah 6:19

Hear, earth: behold, I will bring evil on this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not listened to my words; and as for my law, they have rejected it.

Jeremiah 9:6

Your habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, says the LORD.

Daniel 9:11

Yes, all Yisra'el have transgressed your law, even turning aside, that they should not obey your voice: therefore has the curse been poured out on us, and the oath that is written in the Torah of Moshe the servant of God; for we have sinned against him.

Hosea 11:5

*They won't return into the land of Egypt; but the Ashur will be their king, because they refused to repent.

Hosea 11:7

My people are determined to turn from me. Though they call to the Elyon, he certainly won't exalt them.

Hosea 13:2

Now they sin more and more, and have made themselves molten images of their silver, even idols according to their own understanding, all of them the work of the craftsmen. They say of them, 'They offer human sacrifice and kiss the calves.'

Hosea 4:16

For Yisra'el has behaved extremely stubbornly, like a stubborn heifer. Then how will the LORD feed them like a lamb in a meadow.

Zechariah 7:11

But they refused to listen, and turned their backs, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear.

John 5:40

Yet you will not come to me, that you may have life.

1 Thessalonians 5:21

Test all things, and hold firmly that which is good.

Hebrews 12:25

See that you don't refuse him who speaks. For if they didn't escape when they refused him who warned on the Earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven,

Revelation 2:25

Nevertheless, hold firmly that which you have, until I come.