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Jeremiah 8:5

Why then is 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? - rather, as the Hebrew [ showbªbaah (H7725) ... mªshubaah (H4878)] is the same as Jeremiah 8:4, to which this verse refers, 'turned away with a perpetual turning way.'

Perpetual - in contrast to the 'arise' (rise again) (Jeremiah 8:4).

Refuse to return - in contrast to "shall he ... not return" (Jeremiah 8:4; Jeremiah 5:3, "They have refused to return").

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See also Jeremiah 8:5 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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 th...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 8 _ 1. The horrors of the invasion (Jeremiah 8:1) _ 2. Hardened hearts and retribution (Jeremiah 8:4) 3. Utter destruction threatened (Jeremiah 8:13) 4. The prophet's lamentation ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    JUDAH'S UNNATURAL CONDUCT AND ITS PUNISHMENT. There is something unnatural in the persistency of the people's misconduct; they show no inclination to return to Yahweh, but pursue a headstrong course a...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _slidden back … backsliding … return_ All three expressions are from the same root; "_turn back … backturning … to return_....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Jeremiah 8:4 to Jeremiah 9:1. Forecast of punishment as the result of sin The section may be thus summarized. (i) Jeremiah 8:4. Human fortunes and conduct are as a rule liable to change, but Israel...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 1041 EXPOSTULATION WITH THE IMPENITENT Jeremiah 8:4. Thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord; Shall they fall, and not arise? Shall he turn away, and not return? Why then is this peop...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    CHAPTER EIGHT SERMONS FROM THE EARLY REIGN OF JEHOIAKIM Jeremiah 8:4 to Jeremiah 10:25 The oracles in Jeremiah 8:4 to Jeremiah 1

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1-3. The dead shall share in the universal punishment....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    SLIDDEN BACK... BACKSLIDING. — The English fails to give the full emphasis of the re-iteration of the same word as in the previous verse. _Why doth this people of Jerusalem turn away with a perpetual...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    מַדּ֨וּעַ שֹׁובְבָ֜ה הָ עָ֥ם הַ זֶּ֛ה יְרוּשׁ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    Jeremiah 8:1; Jeremiah 9:1; Jeremiah 10:1; Jeremiah 26:1 In the four Chapter s which we are now to consider we have what is plainly a fin

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    FALSE PROMISES OF PEACE Jeremiah 8:4-22 This chapter is filled with denunciation of the unreasonable and infatuated obstinacy of Israel. As the horse rushes madly to the fight, so were the people set...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Utter desolation would overtake them so that death would be chosen rather than life. This sin of idolatry had been aggravated by the people's terrible persistence therein. If men fall it is naturally...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Was there ever a more beautiful figure chosen to depicture the extreme folly of the human understanding, than in the contrast here drawn between the inconsiderateness of man, and the thoughtfulness of...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    Whoever will impartially consider the discourse of the Prophet must see that this is the real meaning; for, in the second of these verses, he says, _Why is this people of Jerusalem, etc_. ; he now fir...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 7, 8, AND 9. Chapter 7 begins a new prophecy, contemplating especially the temple, which, instead of being a protection (as the people, without conscience, wo...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

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  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

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  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE JEWS PERSIST IN WICKEDNESS...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Why, then, is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? Why do they persist so obstinately in their perverse ways? THEY HOLD FAST DECEIT, clinging to their hypocritical behavio...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    4-13 What brought this ruin? 1. The people would not attend to reason; they would not act in the affairs of their souls with common prudence. Sin is backsliding; it is going back from the way that le...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    BY A PERPETUAL BACKSLIDING: either a universal backsliding; or rather, obstinately resolved to hold on, though they see they are out of the way; not out of levity or inconsiderateness. The Hebrew word...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 8:5 people H5971 back H7725 (H8790) Jerusalem H3389 perpetual H5329 (H8737) backsliding H4878 hold H2388 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    YHWH EXPRESSES AMAZEMENT AT THE UNWILLINGNESS OF HIS PEOPLE TO RETURN TO HIM, AND THEIR COMPLETE DISREGARD FOR HIS REQUIREMENTS, AND WARNS THEM THAT AS A CONSEQUENCE THEY WILL LOSE EVERYTHING (JEREMIA...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Jeremiah 8:1. _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 bo...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Jeremiah 8:1. 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 bon...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Message in the temple gate, continued. Terrible judgments impending. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: Impenitence brings certain ruin. All the boasted wisdom of man cannot serve to k...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Jeremiah 8:1. _At that time they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah of the princes of the priests, and the bones_ (as in the Chaldaic) _of the_ false _prophets._ They shall spread them be...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding._ A GREAT EVIL AND AN URGENT QUESTION I. A great evil. “Backsliding.” 1. It is an evil in its nature; it is a great sin...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—Chronology and History, as in chap. 7. Observe, however, that a new section in this extended prophetic address commenced with Jeremiah 8:4, which continues to chap. Jere...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION JEREMIAH 8:1 Punishment will even overtake the sinners who have long since been deceased. JEREMIAH 8:1 THEY SHALL BRING OUT THE BONES. Not only shall many of the dead bodies remain unbur...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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 inha...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Thessalonians 5:21; 2 Thessalonians 2:9; Hebrews 12:25; Hosea 11:7;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Deceit — Their false prophets, encouraging themselves in their wickedness, and pleasing themselves, that their miseries should not come upon them....

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