Jeremía 8:5

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Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

slidden: Jeremiah 2:32, Jeremiah 3:11-14, Jeremiah 7:24-26, Hosea 4:16, Hosea 11:7

they hold: Jeremiah 9:6, Proverbs 4:13, Isaiah 30:10, Isaiah 44:20, 1 Thessalonians 5:21, 2 Thessalonians 2:9-12, Revelation 2:25

they refuse: Jeremiah 5:3, Isaiah 1:20, Zechariah 7:11, John 5:40, Hebrews 12:25

Reciprocal: Exodus 7:14 - he refuseth Psalms 53:3 - Every Proverbs 14:14 - backslider Isaiah 5:18 - draw Jeremiah 2:19 - and thy Jeremiah 8:19 - Why Jeremiah 13:10 - evil Jeremiah 14:10 - have they Jeremiah 15:6 - thou art Jeremiah 15:7 - since Ezekiel 5:6 - for they Ezekiel 14:6 - Repent Daniel 9:11 - all Hosea 7:10 - and they Amos 4:6 - yet

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding?.... These people fill into sin, and rise not again by repentance; they turn out of the good ways of God and religion, and return not again; they backslide and revolt from the Lord, and they continue in their revolt and rebellion; their backsliding is an everlasting one; there is no hope of their repentance and recovery: it is a vehement and passionate expostulation about the people of the Jews, founded upon the former general observation, showing them to be the worst of all people: it is a common saying, "it is a long lane that has no turning"; but these people, having departed from the Lord, return no more. A very learned man renders the words, "why does Jerusalem turn away this people with an obstinate aversion?" b that is, the rulers and governors of Jerusalem, as in Matthew 23:37 or rather thus, "why does a stubborn aversion turn away this people, O Jerusalem?" and so they are an address to the magistrates and inhabitants of Jerusalem.

They hold fast deceit; practise it, and continue in the practice of it, both with God and man:

they refuse to return: to the Lord, to his worship, and to the right ways of holiness and truth, from whence they had erred; see Jeremiah 5:3.

b מדוע שובבה העם הזה ירושלם משבה נצחת "quare avertit hunc populum Hierosolyma aversione pertinaci? [vel] quare avertit populum hunc", O Jerusalem, "aversio pertinax?" De Dieu.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

When men act as in Jeremiah 8:4, why is God’s own people alone an exception?

Slidden back ... backsliding - The same words as “turn” and “return” in Jeremiah 8:4. They should be rendered, “Why doth this people of Jerusalem turn away with a perpetual turning?”

Deceit - i. e., idolatry; because men worship in it that which is false, and it is false to the worshippers.

Refuse - From a feeling of dislike.