Jeremiah 8:5
Wherefore has this my people turned away with a shameless revolting, and strengthened themselves in their willfulness, and refused to return?
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Isaiah 1:20but if ye be not willing, nor hearken to me, a sword shall devour you: for the mouth of the Lord has spoken this.
Isaiah 44:20Know thou that their heart is ashes, and they err, and no one is able to deliver his soul: see, ye will not say, There is a lie in my right hand.
Jeremiah 3:5Will God’s anger continue forever, or be preserved to the end? Behold, thou hast spoken and done these bad things, and hadst power to do them.
Jeremiah 5:3O Lord, thine eyes are upon faithfulness: thou hast scourged them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them; but they would not receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; and they would not return.
Jeremiah 6:17I have set watchmen over you, saying, Hear ye the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hear it.
Jeremiah 7:24But they hearkened not to me, and their ear gave no heed, but they walked in the imaginations of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward;
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 8:5-13
Full of Impenitent Sinners; Hardened Wickedness of Judah. ( b. c. 606.) 4 Moreover thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord ; Shall they fall, and not arise? shall he turn away, and not return? 5 Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return. 6 I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright: no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to his course, as the horse rusheth into the battle. 7 Yea,… Read the whole commentary →