Jeremiah 8:5 Cross References - MLV

⁵ Why has this people of Jerusalem then slid back by a perpetual backsliding? They hold firm deceit. They refuse to return.

¹³ Take firm hold of instruction. Do not let her go. Keep her, because she is your life.

²⁰ But if you* refuse and rebel, you* will be devoured with the sword, for the mouth of Jehovah has spoken it.

¹⁰ who say to the seers, Do not see and to the prophets, Do not prophesy to us right things. Speak to us smooth things. Prophesy deceits.

²⁰ He feeds on ashes. A deceived heart has turned him aside. And he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?

³² Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me days without number.

¹¹ And Jehovah said to me, Backsliding Israel has shown herself more righteous than treacherous Judah. ¹² Go and proclaim these words toward the north and say, Return, you backsliding Israel, says Jehovah, I will not look in anger upon you*, for I am merciful, says Jehovah. I will not keep anger everlasting.
¹³ Only acknowledge your iniquity, that you have transgressed against Jehovah your God and have scattered your ways to the strangers under every green tree and you* have not obeyed my voice, says Jehovah.
¹⁴ Return, O backsliding sons, says Jehovah, for I am a husband to you*. And I will take you*, one of a city and two of a family and I will bring you* to Zion.

³ O Jehovah, do not your eyes look upon 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.

²⁷ As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit. Therefore they have become great and grown rich.

²⁴ But they listened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in their own counsels, in the stubbornness of their evil heart and went backward and not forward.
²⁵ Since the day that your* fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt to this day, I have sent to you* all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them. ²⁶ Yet they listened not to me, nor inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff. They did worse than their fathers.

⁶ Your habitation is in the midst of deceit. Through deceit they refuse to know me, says Jehovah.

¹⁶ For Israel has behaved himself stubbornly, like a stubborn heifer. Now Jehovah will feed them as a lamb in a large place.

⁷ And my people are bent on backsliding from me. Though they call them to him who is on high, none at all will exalt him.

¹¹ But they refused to listen and pulled away the shoulder and stopped their ears, that they might not hear.

⁴⁰ and you are not willing to come to me, in order that you may have life.

²¹ Test all things. Hold-onto the good things.

⁹ even he, whose presence is according to the working of the Adversary in every power and in signs and in lying wonders, ¹⁰ and in all deception of unrighteousness in those who are perishing, because they did not accept the love of the truth, that they might be saved. ¹¹ And because of this, God will be sending them a working of error, that they may believe in the lie; ¹² in order that they all might be judged who did not believe the truth, but were delighted in unrighteousness.

²⁵ Beware that you do not renounce the one who speaks. For if those men did not flee when they renounced the one who divinely-warned them upon the earth, much more we may not flee who are turning away from him, who is from the heavens;

²⁵ However hold-fast^\'b0 to what you have, till whenever I have come.