"Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return."
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But 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.
And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.
Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life.
Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.
And the LORD said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath justified herself more than treacherous Judah.
For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
But that which ye have already hold fast till I come.
But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.
Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:
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?
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.
As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.
And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him.
Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
See 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:
But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.
Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD.
Why do these people of Jerusalem go back, for ever turning away? they will not give up their deceit, they will not come back.
Why hath this people of Jerusalem slidden back with a perpetual backsliding? They hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
Why then hath this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
Wherefore hath this people of Jerusalem Turned back -- a perpetual backsliding? They have kept hold on deceit, They have refused to turn back.