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Jer.8.5

Jeremiah 8:5

King James Version (KJV)

Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.

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King James Version (KJV)
O Lord, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.
King James Version (KJV)
Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased.
King James Version (KJV)
As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.
King James Version (KJV)
But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.
King James Version (KJV)
Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the Lord.
King James Version (KJV)
¶ O Lord, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou it for thy name’s sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against thee.
King James Version (KJV)
Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even by departing, that they might not obey thy voice; therefore the curse is poured upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against him.
King James Version (KJV)
And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him.
King James Version (KJV)
But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.