Jeremiah 8:4
Moreover thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD; Shall they fall, and not arise? shall he turn away, and not return?
KJV
Et dices ad eos : Hæc dicit Dominus : Numquid qui cadit non resurget ? et qui aversus est non revertetur ?
Vulgate
Ὅτι τάδε λέγει Κύριος Μὴ ὁ πίπτων οὐκ ἀνίσταται; ἢ ὁ ἀποστρέφων οὐκ ἀναστρέφει;
LXX
Moreover thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith Jehovah: Shall men fall, and not rise up again? Shall one turn away, and not return?
ASV
וְ/אָמַרְתָּ֣ אֲלֵי/הֶ֗ם כֹּ֚ה אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֔ה הֲ/יִפְּל֖וּ וְ/לֹ֣א יָק֑וּמוּ אִם יָשׁ֖וּב וְ/לֹ֥א יָשֽׁוּב
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
9 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
אִם
'm
conjunction · 1065×
אֶל
'l
preposition · 5475×
יְהוָ֖ה
yhvh
proper_noun · 6455×
יִּפֹּ֥ל
ypl
verb · 434×
יָּ֣קָם
yqm
verb · 626×
יֹּ֣אמֶר
y'mr
verb · 5290×
כֹּֽה
kh
adverb · 574×
לֹ֣א
l'
proper_noun · 5171×
שׁ֣וּב
shvb
verb · 1058×
Historic Christian voices
9 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Homilies on Matthew · 3 passages
2. But say in a word only, and my servant shall be healed. See this man also, how, like the leper, he has the right opinion touching Him. For neither did this one say, entreat, nor did he say, pray, and beseech, but command only. And then from fear lest out of modesty He refuse, he says, For I also am a man under authority, having under me soldiers; and I say to this man, go, a…
2. Not any therefore of these things does He here intimate, but it is what I said, He displays His power to punish, and this is shown by saying, The time was not yet, making it clear that of this special purpose He went, and not for hunger, but for His disciples' sake, who indeed marvelled exceedingly, although many miracles had been done greater; but, as I said, this was stran…
2. See how much care he takes for them to relieve them from blame, and how much diligence they employed, so as not to leave to themselves so much as a shadow of an excuse. For which was right? To let go the acknowledged criminal, or Him about whose guilt there was a question? For, if in the case of acknowledged offenders it was fit there should be a liberation, much more in tho…
2. I therefore so run, as not uncertainly. Thus having shamed them from those that are without, he next brings forward himself also, which kind of thing is a most excellent method of teaching: and accordingly we find him every where doing so. But what is, not uncertainly? Looking to some mark, says he, not at random and in vain, as you do. For what profit have ye of entering in…
1. You have heard how much Paul found fault with the Hebrews for wishing to be always learning about the same things. And with good reason: For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, you have need again that some one teach you the elements of the first principles of the oracles of God. Hebrews 5:12 I am afraid that this might fitly be said to you also, that when for the tim…
Cross-references
- 1Kgs 8:38 — What prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, or by all thy people Israel, which shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house:
- Amos 5:2 — The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her land; there is none to raise her up.
- Ezek 18:23 — Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord GOD: and not that he should return from his ways, and live?
- Hos 6:1 — Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.
- Hos 7:10 — And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face: and they do not return to the LORD their God, nor seek him for all this.
- Hos 14:1 — O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.
- Isa 44:22 — I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.
- Isa 55:7 — Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
- Isa 55:7 — Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
- Jer 3:1 — They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man’s, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many
- Jer 15:7 — And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will bereave them of children, I will destroy my people, since they return not from their ways.
- Jer 23:14 — I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they ar
- Jer 36:3 — It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I purpose to do unto them; that they may return every man from his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.
- Mic 7:8 — Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light unto me.
- Prov 24:16 — For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief.
- Ps 119:59 — I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies.
- Rev 2:21 — And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not.
- Rev 9:20 — And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, a