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Jeremiah 8:5
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Jeremiah 8:5
5Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
5Why then is this people of Ierusalem slidden backe, by a perpetual backesliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to returne.
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DEFINED WORDS
Jeremiah 8:5
Persons collectively; a nation, community, or group considered as a body.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Of slide.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · KJV usage (PCE)
The rear part; a position or direction behind; or a return to a former place or condition, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Continuing without interruption; lasting indefinitely or for the appointed duration.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
backsliding
Turning back from a former course of faithfulness into sin or unfaithfulness.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
To grasp, keep, possess, restrain, maintain, regard, or account, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Firm, fixed, or secure; moving quickly; also an abstinence from food or the act of abstaining.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828
Fraud, guile, or any word or practice intended to mislead another into believing what is false.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
To go, come, send, or give back; to restore, answer, or turn again.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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Open the full verse study6Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the Lord.
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Open the full verse study3O 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.
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Open the full verse study11But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.
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Open the full verse study25See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:
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Open the full verse study7And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him.
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Open the full verse study40And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.
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Open the full verse study9Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
10And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
11And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
12That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
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Open the full verse study10Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:
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Open the full verse study20He 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?
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Open the full verse study27As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.
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Open the full verse study21Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
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Open the full verse study16For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the Lord will feed them as a lamb in a large place.
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Open the full verse study25But that which ye have already hold fast till I come.
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Open the full verse study20But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
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Open the full verse study32Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.
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Open the full verse study11And the Lord said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath justified herself more than treacherous Judah.
12¶ Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the Lord; and I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you: for I am merciful, saith the Lord, and I will not keep anger for ever.
13Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the Lord thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the Lord.
14Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:
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Open the full verse study24But 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.
25Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day I have even sent unto you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them:
26Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.
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Open the full verse study13Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life.
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