“Why then have the people of Jerusalem fallen back by a perpetual backsliding?They cling to deceit.They refuse to return.”
Jeremiah 8:5 (WEB)
Context Reading
3Death will be chosen rather than life by all the residue that remain of this evil family, that remain in all the places where I have driven them,” says Yahweh of Armies. 4“Moreover you shall tell them, ‘Yahweh says:“‘Do men fall, and not rise up again?Does one turn away, and not return? 5Why then have the people of Jerusalem fallen back by a perpetual backsliding?They cling to deceit.They refuse to return. 6I listened and heard, but they didn’t say what is right.No one repents of his wickedness, saying, “What have I done?”Everyone turns to his course,as a horse that rushes headlong in the battle. 7Yes, the stork in the sky knows her appointed times.The turtledove, the swallow, and the crane observe the time of their coming;but my people don’t know Yahweh’s law.