Jeremiah 8:5

Jerusalem persists in 'perpetual backsliding,' clinging to deceit and refusing to repent. It shows how hardened and habitual their sin had become.

Cross-references · 18

• Jer 9:6Your habitation is in the middle of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me,” says Yahweh.
• Zech 7:11But they refused to listen, and turned their backs, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear.
• Jer 5:3O Yahweh, don’t your eyes look on truth? You have stricken them, but they were 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.
• Hos 11:7My people are determined to turn from me. Though they call to the Most High, he certainly won’t exalt them.
• John 5:40Yet you will not come to me, that you may have life.
• Heb 12:25See that you don’t refuse him who speaks. For if they didn’t escape when they refused him who warned on the earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven,
• 2 Th 2:9–12even he whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
• Jer 5:27As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit. Therefore they have become great, and grew rich.
• Isa 44:20He feeds on ashes. A deceived heart has turned him aside; and he can’t deliver his soul, nor say, “Isn’t there a lie in my right hand?”
• Isa 30:10who tell the seers, “Don’t see!” and to the prophets, “Don’t prophesy to us right things. Tell us pleasant things. Prophesy deceits.
• Rev 2:25Nevertheless, hold that which you have firmly until I come.
• 1 Th 5:21Test all things, and hold firmly that which is good.
• Hos 4:16For Israel has behaved extremely stubbornly, like a stubborn heifer. Then how will Yahweh feed them like a lamb in a meadow.
• Isa 1:20but if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword; for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it.”
• Prov 4:13Take firm hold of instruction. Don’t let her go. Keep her, for she is your life.
• Jer 3:11–14Yahweh said to me, “Backsliding Israel has shown herself more righteous than treacherous Judah.
• Jer 2:32“Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me for days without number.
• Jer 7:24–26But they didn’t listen nor turn their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.

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