Why then have the people of Jerusalem fallen back by a perpetual backsliding? They cling to deceit. They refuse to return.

这耶路撒冷的民，为何恒久背道呢？他们守定诡诈，不肯回头。

这耶路撒冷的百姓为何永久背道呢？他们抓住诡诈，不肯回头。

这耶路撒冷的百姓为何永久背道呢？他们抓住诡诈，不肯回头。

为什么耶路撒冷的居民一味地背叛我？他们诡诈成性，不肯回头。

这人民为什么背道，耶路撒冷为什么长久偏离？他们定意行诡诈，不肯回转。

這耶路撒冷的民，為何恆久背道呢？他們守定詭詐，不肯回頭。

這耶路撒冷的百姓為何永久背道呢？他們抓住詭詐，不肯回頭。

這耶路撒冷的百姓為何永久背道呢？他們抓住詭詐，不肯回頭。

為什麼耶路撒冷的居民一味地背叛我？他們詭詐成性，不肯回頭。

這人民為甚麼背道，耶路撒冷為甚麼長久偏離？他們定意行詭詐，不肯回轉。

這人民為甚麼長久轉離呢？他們執迷着詭詐，不肯轉回。

然則此耶路撒冷民、恆久悖逆何為乎、彼堅持詭譎、弗肯旋轉、

然則耶路撒冷人恆背逆予、固執詭詐、不知悛改、曷故。

然則此耶路撒冷之民、違棄我、永不復歸、何故、固執虛假、不願悔改、何故、

Why then have these people turned away? Why does Jerusalem always turn away? They cling to deceit; they refuse to return.

Then why have the people of Jerusalem turned away from me? Why do they always turn away? They keep on telling lies. They refuse to come back to me.

Why then has this people turned away in perpetual backsliding? They hold fast to deceit; they refuse to return.

Then why do these people stay on their self destructive path? Why do the people of Jerusalem refuse to turn back? They cling tightly to their lies and will not turn around.

Why have these people turned away? Why is Jerusalem always turning away? They take hold of deceit; they refuse to return.

Why has this people, Jerusalem, Turned away in continual apostasy? They hold on to deceit, They refuse to return.

Why has this people slidden back, Jerusalem, in a perpetual backsliding? They hold fast to 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 have these people turned away? Why is Jerusalem always turning away? They take hold of 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, do these people of Jerusalem continually turn away from me in apostasy? They hold fast to their deception. They refuse to turn back to me.

Your habitation is in the middle of deceit. Through deceit, they refuse to know me,” says Yahweh.

O Yahweh, don’t your eyes look on truth? You have stricken them, but they were not grieved. You have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction. They have made their faces harder than a rock. They have refused to return.

But they refused to listen, and turned their backs, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear.

He feeds on ashes. A deceived heart has turned him aside; and he can’t deliver his soul, nor say,“ Isn’t there a lie in my right hand?”

As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit. Therefore they have become great, and grew rich.

even he whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn’t receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.Because of this, God sends them a working of error, that they should believe a lie;that they all might be judged who didn’t believe the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

who tell the seers,“ Don’t see!” and the prophets,“ Don’t prophesy to us right things. Tell us pleasant things. Prophesy deceits.

My people are determined to turn from me. Though they call to the Most High, he certainly won’t exalt them.

Yet you will not come to me, that you may have life.

See that you don’t refuse him who speaks. For if they didn’t escape when they refused him who warned on the earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven,

For Israel has behaved extremely stubbornly, like a stubborn heifer. Then how will Yahweh feed them like a lamb in a meadow.

Nevertheless, hold that which you have firmly until I come.

Test all things, and hold firmly that which is good.

“ Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me for days without number.

but if you refuse and rebel, you will be devoured with the sword; for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it.”

But they didn’t listen or turn their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.Since the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt to this day, I have sent to you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them.Yet they didn’t listen to me or incline their ear, but made their neck stiff. They did worse than their fathers.

Take firm hold of instruction. Don’t let her go. Keep her, for she is your life.

Yahweh said to me,“ Backsliding Israel has shown herself more righteous than treacherous Judah.Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say,‘ Return, you backsliding Israel,’ says Yahweh;‘ I will not look in anger on you; for I am merciful,’ says Yahweh.‘ I will not keep anger forever.Only acknowledge your iniquity, that you have transgressed against Yahweh your God, and have scattered your ways to the strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed my voice,’ says Yahweh.”“ Return, backsliding children,” says Yahweh;“ for I am a husband to you. I will take one of you from a city, and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion.