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Jeremiah 8:4

And you will say to them: Thus says the Lord: He who falls, will he not rise again? And he who has been turned away, will he not return?

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In The King James Version

Moreover thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD; Shall they fall, and not arise? shall he turn away, and not return?

In Context

3And they will greatly prefer death to life: all those who will have been left from this wicked kindred, in all the forsaken places to which I will cast them out, says the Lord of hosts.

5Then why have this people in Jerusalem turned away with a contentious loathing? They have taken hold of what is false, and they are not willing to return.

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Cross References

1 Kings 8:38or whatever curse or divine intervention may happen to any man among your people Israel, if anyone understands, having been wounded in his heart, and if he will have extended his hands in this house,

Isaiah 44:22I have wiped away your iniquities like a cloud, and your sins like a mist. Return to me, because I have redeemed you.

Jeremiah 3:1“It is commonly said: ‘If a man has divorced his wife, and she departs from him, she will marry another man.’ So why would he return to her again? Is not that woman polluted and defiled? But you have fornicated yourself with many lovers. Even so, return to me, says the Lord, and I will accept you.

Jeremiah 4:1“O Israel, if you would return, says the Lord, then be converted to me. If you remove your offense from before my face, then you will not be shaken.

Jeremiah 36:3Perhaps it may be that the house of Judah, upon hearing all the evils that I have decided to do to them, may return, each one from his wicked way, and then I will forgive their iniquity and their sin.”

Hosea 6:1In their tribulation, they will arise early to me. Come, let us return to the Lord.

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 8:2-4

Indignities Threatened to the Dead. ( b. c. 606.) 1 At that time, saith the Lord , they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves: 2 And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have… Read the whole commentary →

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