Jeremiah 8:5

Death Over Life

⁴ “You are to say to them: This is what the Lord says:

Do people fall and not get up again?
If they turn away, do they not return?
⁵ Why have these people turned away?
Why is Jerusalem always turning away?
They take hold of deceit;
they refuse to return.
⁶ I have paid careful attention.
They do not speak what is right.
No one regrets his evil,
asking, ‘What have I done?’
Everyone has stayed his course
like a horse rushing into battle.

Not Give Up

O God

Jerusalem

Jeremiah 9:6

You live in a world of deception.
In their deception they refuse to know Me.
This is the Lord’s declaration.

Jeremiah 5:3

Lord, don’t Your eyes look for faithfulness?
You have struck them, but they felt no pain.
You finished them off,
but they refused to accept discipline.
They made their faces harder than rock,
and they refused to return.

Proverbs 4:13

Hold on to instruction; don’t let go.
Guard it, for it is your life.

Isaiah 1:20

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

Isaiah 30:10

They say to the seers, “Do not see,”
and to the prophets,
“Do not prophesy the truth to us.
Tell us flattering things.
Prophesy illusions.

Isaiah 44:20

He feeds on ashes.
His deceived mind has led him astray,
and he cannot deliver himself,
or say, “Isn’t there a lie in my right hand?”

Jeremiah 2:32

Can a young woman forget her jewelry
or a bride her wedding sash?
Yet My people have forgotten Me
for countless days.

Jeremiah 3:11-14

The Lord announced to me, “Unfaithful Israel has shown herself more righteous than treacherous Judah.

Jeremiah 5:27

Like a cage full of birds,
so their houses are full of deceit.
Therefore they have grown powerful and rich.

Jeremiah 7:24-26

Yet they didn’t listen or pay attention but followed their own advice and according to their own stubborn, evil heart. They went backward and not forward.

Hosea 4:16

For Israel is as obstinate as a stubborn cow.
Can the Lord now shepherd them
like a lamb in an open meadow?

Hosea 11:7

My people are bent on turning from Me.
Though they call to Him on high,
He will not exalt them at all.

Zechariah 7:11

But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder; they closed their ears so they could not hear.

John 5:40

And you are not willing to come to Me so that you may have life.

1 Thessalonians 5:21

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

2 Thessalonians 2:9-12

The coming of the lawless one is based on Satan’s working, with all kinds of false miracles, signs, and wonders,

Hebrews 12:25

Make sure that you do not reject the One who speaks. For if they did not escape when they rejected Him who warned them on earth, even less will we if we turn away from Him who warns us from heaven.

Revelation 2:25

But hold on to what you have until I come.