Jeremiah 8:5 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.

Jeremiah 8:5 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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 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.
Zechariah 7:11
But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.
Jeremiah 5:27
As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.
Isaiah 44:20
He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Backsliders Call Church Congregation Converts Deafness Ecclesiasticism

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 4-12)

The prophet here is instructed to set before this people the folly of their impenitence, which was it that brought this ruin upon them. They are here represented as the most stupid senseless people in the world, that would not be made wise by all the methods that Infinite Wisdom took to bring them to themselves and their right mind, and so to prevent the ruin that was coming upon them. I. They wou…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 5)

5. slidden ... backsliding--rather, as the Hebrew is the same as in Jr 8:4, to which this verse refers, “turned away with a perpetual turning away.” perpetual--in contrast to the “arise” (“rise again,” Jr 8:4). refuse to return--in contrast to, “shall he ... not return” (Jr 8:4; Jr 5:3).