Jeremiah 8:5

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Summary

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

Slidden

Hosea 11:7

They hold

Revelation 2:25

They refuse

Hebrews 12:25

Bible References

Slidden

Doth a virgin forget her ornaments, a bride her attire? But my people have forgotten me days without number.

And Jehovah said unto me, Backsliding Israel hath shewn herself more just than treacherous Judah.

But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels, in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward and not forward.

For Israel is refractory as an untractable heifer; now will Jehovah feed them as a lamb in a wide pasture.

Yea, my people are bent upon backsliding from me: though they call them to the Most High, none at all exalteth him.

They hold

Thy habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith Jehovah.

Take fast hold of instruction, let her not go: keep her, for she is thy life.

who say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things; speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits;

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?

but prove all things, hold fast the right;

whose coming is according to the working of Satan in all power and signs and wonders of falsehood,

but what ye have hold fast till I shall come.

They refuse

Jehovah, are not thine eyes upon fidelity? Thou hast smitten them, but they are not sore; thou hast consumed them, they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.

but if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken.

But they refused to hearken, and turned a rebellious shoulder, and made their ears heavy, that they should not hear.

and ye will not come to me that ye might have life.

See that ye refuse not him that speaks. For if those did not escape who had refused him who uttered the oracles on earth, much more we who turn away from him who does so from heaven: