Jeremiah 8:5 “Why then have these people turned away? Why does Jerusalem always turn…”

Jeremiah 8:5

Why then have these people turned away? Why does Jerusalem always turn away? They cling to deceit; they refuse to return.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

Why then have the people of Jerusalem fallen back by a perpetual backsliding? They cling to deceit. They refuse to return.

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

Wherefore is this people of Ierusalem turned backe by a perpetuall rebellion? they gaue themselues to deceit, and would not returne.

Darby Translation

Why hath this people of Jerusalem slidden back with a perpetual backsliding? They hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.

Young's Literal Translation

Wherefore hath this people of Jerusalem Turned back — a perpetual backsliding? They have kept hold on deceit, They have refused to turn back.

Bible in Basic English

Why do these people of Jerusalem go back, for ever turning away? they will not give up their deceit, they will not come back.

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Cross references

“slidden”

Hosea 11:7 Hosea 4:16 Jeremiah 2:32 Jeremiah 3:11–14 Jeremiah 7:24–26

Hosea 11:7 · BSB

My people are bent on turning from Me. Though they call to the Most High, He will by no means exalt them.

Hosea 4:16 · BSB

For Israel is as obstinate as a stubborn heifer. Can the LORD now shepherd them like lambs in an open meadow?

Jeremiah 2:32 · BSB

Does a maiden forget her jewelry or a bride her wedding sash? Yet My people have forgotten Me for days without number.

Jeremiah 3:11–14 · BSB

And the LORD said to me, “Faithless Israel has shown herself more righteous than unfaithful Judah.

Jeremiah 7:24–26 · BSB

Yet they did not listen or incline their ear, but they followed the stubborn inclinations of their own evil hearts. They went backward and not forward.

“they hold”

Jeremiah 9:6 Isaiah 30:10 Isaiah 44:20 2 Thessalonians 2:9–12 1 Thessalonians 5:21 Revelation 2:25

Jeremiah 9:6 · BSB

You dwell in the midst of deception; in their deceit they refuse to know Me,” declares the LORD.

Isaiah 30:10 · BSB

They say to the seers, “Stop seeing visions!” and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us the truth! Speak to us pleasant words; prophesy illusions.

Isaiah 44:20 · BSB

He feeds on ashes. His deluded heart has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, “Is not this thing in my right hand a lie?”

2 Thessalonians 2:9–12 · BSB

The coming of the lawless one will be accompanied by the working of Satan, with every kind of power, sign, and false wonder,

1 Thessalonians 5:21 · BSB

but test all things. Hold fast to what is good.

Revelation 2:25 · BSB

than to hold fast to what you have until I come.

“they refuse”

Jeremiah 5:3 Zechariah 7:11 John 5:40 Hebrews 12:25 Isaiah 1:20

Jeremiah 5:3 · BSB

O LORD, do not Your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain. You finished them off, but they refused to accept discipline. They have made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent.

Zechariah 7:11 · BSB

But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder; they stopped up their ears from hearing.

John 5:40 · BSB

yet you refuse to come to Me to have life.

Hebrews 12:25 · BSB

See to it that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if the people did not escape when they refused Him who warned them on earth, how much less will we escape if we reject Him who warns us from heaven?

Isaiah 1:20 · BSB

But if you resist and rebel, you will be devoured by the sword.” For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.

Also

Jeremiah 5:27

Jeremiah 5:27 · BSB

Like cages full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit. Therefore they have become powerful and rich.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

4So you are to tell them this is what the LORD says: “Do men fall and not get up again? Does one turn away and not return?

6I have listened and heard; they do not speak what is right. No one repents of his wickedness, asking, ‘What have I done?’ Everyone has pursued his own course like a horse charging into battle.

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