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Jeremiah 8:5

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

KJV

Quare ergo aversus est populus iste in Jerusalem aversione contentiosa ? Apprehenderunt mendacium, et noluerunt reverti.

Vulgate

διὰ τί ἀπέστρεψεν ὁ λαός μου οὗτος ἀποστροφὴν ἀναιδῆ, καὶ κατεκρατήθησαν ἐν τῇ προαιρέσει αὐτῶν καὶ οὐκ ἠθέλησαν τοῦ ἐπιστρέψαι;

LXX

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

ASV

מַדּ֨וּעַ שׁוֹבְבָ֜ה הָ/עָ֥ם הַ/זֶּ֛ה יְרוּשָׁלִַ֖ם מְשֻׁבָ֣ה נִצַּ֑חַת הֶחֱזִ֨יקוּ֙ בַּ/תַּרְמִ֔ית מֵאֲנ֖וּ לָ/שֽׁוּב

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

10 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

הֶחֱזִ֗יק
hchzyq
verb · 289×
זֶּֽה
zh
pronoun · 1173×
י
y
noun · 1849×
יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם
yrvshlm
proper_noun · 634×
מְנַצֵּ֥חַ
mntsch
verb · 65×
מְשֻׁבָ֣ה
mshbh
noun · 13×
מֵאֲנ֖וּ
m'nv
verb · 41×
מַדּ֖וּעַ
mdv'
adverb · 71×
שׁ֣וּב
shvb
verb · 1058×
תַּרְמִ֔ית
trmyt
noun · 7×

Historic Christian voices

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 2Thess 2:9 — Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
  • Dan 9:11 — Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even by departing, that they might not obey thy voice; therefore the curse is poured upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of
  • Ezek 5:6 — And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that are round about her: for they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they have
  • Ezek 14:6 — Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Repent, and turn yourselves from your idols; and turn away your faces from all your abominations.
  • Heb 12:25 — See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:
  • Hos 11:7 — And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him.
  • Hos 11:7 — And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him.
  • Isa 30:10 — Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:
  • Isa 44:20 — He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?
  • Jer 2:19 — Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear
  • Jer 5:3 — O LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder t
  • Jer 5:27 — As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.
  • Jer 7:24 — But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.
  • Jer 9:6 — Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD.
  • Jer 9:6 — Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD.
  • John 5:40 — And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.
  • Prov 14:14 — The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from himself.
  • Ps 53:3 — Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
  • Zech 7:11 — But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.
  • Zech 7:11 — But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.