Thematic Bible: Prone to backsliding
Thematic Bible
Jews, the » National character of » Prone to backsliding
Why then has this people of Jerusalem slid back by a perpetual backsliding? They hold firm deceit. They refuse to return.
Verse Concepts
Has a nation changed [its] gods, which yet are no gods? But my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit. Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid. Be ye very desolate, says LORD. For my people have committed two evils: They have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.