Parallel Verses
King James 2000
Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
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.
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
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References
Morish
Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 8:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
Death Over Life
4 Moreover you shall say unto them, Thus says the LORD; Shall they fall, and not rise? shall he turn away, and not return? 5 Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return. 6 I hearkened and heard, but they spoke not aright: no man repented himself of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? everyone turned to his own course, as the horse rushes into the battle.
Names
Cross References
Jeremiah 9:6
Your habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, says the LORD.
Jeremiah 5:3
O LORD, are not your eyes upon the truth? you have stricken them, but they have not grieved; you have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.
Proverbs 4:13
Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is your life.
Isaiah 1:20
But if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD has spoken it.
Isaiah 30:10
Who say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:
Isaiah 44:20
He feeds on ashes: a deceived heart has turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?
Jeremiah 2:32
Can a maid 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 backsliding Israel has justified herself more than treacherous Judah.
Jeremiah 5:27
As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they have become great, and grown rich.
Jeremiah 7:24-26
But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil hearts, and went backward, and not forward.
Hosea 4:16
For Israel slides back like a stubborn heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in an open pasture.
Hosea 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.
Zechariah 7:11
But they refused to hearken, and shrugged the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.
John 5:40
And you will not come to me, that you might have life.
1 Thessalonians 5:21
Test all things; hold fast that which is good.
2 Thessalonians 2:9-12
Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
Hebrews 12:25
See that you refuse not him that speaks. For if they escaped not who refused him that spoke on earth, much more shall we not escape, if we turn away from him that speaks from heaven:
Revelation 2:25
But that which you have already hold fast till I come.