Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
They
They
King James Version
Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
Holman Bible
Why is Jerusalem always turning away?
They take hold of deceit;
they refuse to return.
International Standard Version
Why has this people turned away? Why does Jerusalem continue in apostasy? They hold on to deceit and refuse to repent.
A Conservative Version
Why then has this people of Jerusalem slid back by a perpetual backsliding? They hold firm 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.
Amplified
“Why then has this people of Jerusalem
Turned away with a perpetual turning away [from Me]?
They hold tightly to
They refuse to repent and return [to God].
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.
Darby Translation
Why hath this people of Jerusalem slidden back with a perpetual backsliding? They hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
Julia Smith Translation
Wherefore did this people of Jerusalem turn away a continual turning away? they laid hold upon deceit; they refused to turn back.
King James 2000
Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Why has this people, Jerusalem, turned away [in] enduring apostasy? They have kept hold of deceit, they have refused to return.
Modern King James verseion
Why has this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a never-ending backsliding? They hold fast to deceit; they refuse to return.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Wherefore then is this people and Jerusalem gone so far back, that they turn not again? They are ever the longer, the more obstinate, and will not be converted.
NET Bible
Why, then, do these people of Jerusalem continually turn away from me in apostasy? They hold fast to their deception. They refuse to turn back to me.
New Heart English Bible
Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? They hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
The Emphasized Bible
Wherefore hath this people of Jerusalem apostatized with an enduring apostacy, - Taken fast hold of deceit, Refused to come back?
Webster
Why then hath this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
World English Bible
Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
Youngs 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.
Themes
Backsliding » Guilt and consequences of
Backsliding » Liable to continue and increase
Deceit » Evil of » Keeps from turning to God
Deceit » Keeps from turning to God
Interlinear
Shuwb
References
Morish
Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 8:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
Death Over Life
4
Moreover thou shalt say unto them, Thus hath the LORD said: The one who falls, does he never arise? he who turns away, does he never return?
5
They
They
Names
Cross References
Jeremiah 9:6
Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah 5:3
O LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? Thou hast stricken them, but they did not feel it; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive chastisement; they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.
Proverbs 4:13
Take fast hold of chastening; do not let go; keep this; for it is thy life.
Isaiah 1:20
But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword; for the mouth of the LORD has spoken it.
Isaiah 30:10
Who say to those that see, See not; and to the prophets, Do not prophesy right things unto us, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:
Isaiah 44:20
The ashes feed him; his deceived heart inclines him, that he not deliver his soul and say, Is not the lie at my right hand?
Jeremiah 2:32
Shall the virgin, perchance, forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.
Jeremiah 3:11-14
And the LORD said unto me, The rebellious Israel has justified her soul in comparison to the treacherous Judah.
Jeremiah 5:27
As a cage full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit; thus they became great and rich.
Jeremiah 7:24-26
But they did not hearken, nor incline their ear, but walked in their own counsels in the imagination of their evil heart and went backward, and not forward
Hosea 4:16
for Israel has turned away as a wild heifer; shall the LORD now feed them as rams in a large place?
Hosea 11:7
Meanwhile, my people adhere to the rebellion against me though they call unto me upon High; absolutely none at all wish to exalt me.
Zechariah 7:11
But they refused to hearken and pulled away the shoulder and stopped their ears that they should not hear.
John 5:40
And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.
1 Thessalonians 5:21
Examine all things; retain that which is good.
2 Thessalonians 2:9-12
that wicked one, who shall come by the working of Satan with great power and signs and lying miracles,
Hebrews 12:25
See that you do not refuse him that speaks. For if those who refused him that spoke on earth did not escape, much less shall we escape, if we turn away from him that speaks from the heavens,
Revelation 2:25
But that which ye have already hold fast until I come.