Jeremiah 8:5 - Revised Standard Version CI

⁵ Why then has this people turned away in perpetual backsliding? They hold fast to 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.

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.

Jeremiah 8:5 Tagairtí Cros

Proverbs 4:13

Keep hold of instruction, do not let go; guard her, for she is your life.

Isaiah 1:20

but if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured by the sword; for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.”

Isaiah 30:10

who say to the seers, “See not”; and to the prophets, “Prophesy not to us what is right; speak to us smooth things, prophesy illusions,

Isaiah 44:20

He feeds on ashes; a deluded mind has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, “Is there not a lie in my right hand?”

Jeremiah 14:7

“Though our iniquities testify against us, act, O Lord, for thy name's sake; for our backslidings are many, we have sinned against thee.

Jeremiah 2:32

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

Jeremiah 3:5

will he be angry for ever, will he be indignant to the end?’ Behold, you have spoken, but you have done all the evil that you could.”

Jeremiah 5:27

Like a basket full of birds, their houses are full of treachery; therefore they have become great and rich,

Jeremiah 5:3

O Lord, do not thy eyes look for truth? Thou hast smitten them, but they felt no anguish; thou hast consumed them, but they refused to take correction. They have made their faces harder than rock; they have refused to repent.

Jeremiah 5:6

Therefore a lion from the forest shall slay them, a wolf from the desert shall destroy them. A leopard is watching against their cities, every one who goes out of them shall be torn in pieces; because their transgressions are many, their apostasies are great.

Jeremiah 6:17

I set watchmen over you, saying, ‘Give heed to the sound of the trumpet!’ But they said, ‘We will not give heed.’

Jeremiah 6:19

Hear, O earth; behold, I am bringing evil upon this people, the fruit of their devices, because they have not given heed to my words; and as for my law, they have rejected it.

Jeremiah 9:6

Heaping oppression upon oppression, and deceit upon deceit, they refuse to know me, says the Lord.

Daniel 9:11

All Israel has transgressed thy law and turned aside, refusing to obey thy voice. And the curse and oath which are written in the law of Moses the servant of God have been poured out upon us, because we have sinned against him.

Hosea 11:5

They shall return to the land of Egypt, and Assyria shall be their king, because they have refused to return to me.

Hosea 11:7

My people are bent on turning away from me; so they are appointed to the yoke, and none shall remove it.

Hosea 13:2

And now they sin more and more, and make for themselves molten images, idols skilfully made of their silver, all of them the work of craftsmen. Sacrifice to these, they say. Men kiss calves!

Hosea 4:16

Like a stubborn heifer, Israel is stubborn; can the Lord now feed them like a lamb in a broad pasture?

Zechariah 7:11

But they refused to hearken, and turned a stubborn shoulder, and stopped their ears that they might not hear.

John 5:40

yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life.

1 Thessalonians 5:21

but test everything; hold fast what is good,

Hebrews 12:25

See that you do not refuse him who is speaking. For if they did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, much less shall we escape if we reject him who warns from heaven.

Revelation 2:25

only hold fast what you have, until I come.