Jeremiah 8:5
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
Why then have these people turned away? Why does Jerusalem always turn away? They cling to deceit; they refuse to return.
In context
3 And wherever I have banished them, the remnant of this evil family will choose death over life,” declares the LORD of Hosts.
4 So you are to tell them this is what the LORD says: “Do men fall and not get up again? Does one turn away and not return?
5 Why then have these people turned away? Why does Jerusalem always turn away? They cling to deceit; they refuse to return.
6 I have listened and heard; they do not speak what is right. No one repents of his wickedness, asking, ‘What have I done?’ Everyone has pursued his own course like a horse charging into battle.
7 Even the stork in the sky knows her appointed seasons. The turtledove, the swift, and the thrush keep their time of migration, but My people do not know the requirements of the LORD.
Jeremiah 8:5 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- Why then have these people turned away? Why does Jerusalem always turn away? They cling to deceit; they refuse to return.
- KJV King James Version
- Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
- WEB World English Bible
- Why then have the people of Jerusalem fallen back by a perpetual backsliding? They cling to deceit. They refuse to return.
- ASV American Standard Version
- Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- Wherefore hath this people of Jerusalem Turned back — a perpetual backsliding? They have kept hold on deceit, They have refused to turn back.
- DBY Darby Translation
- Why hath this people of Jerusalem slidden back with a perpetual backsliding? They hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
- WBS Webster Bible
- Why then hath this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.