Jeremiah 3:6
New King James Version
A Call to Repentance
6 The Lord said also to me in the days of Josiah the king: “Have you seen what (A)backsliding Israel has done? She has (B)gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and there played the harlot.
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Jeremiah 8:5
New King James Version
5 Why has this people (A)slidden back,
Jerusalem, in a perpetual backsliding?
(B)They hold fast to deceit,
(C)They refuse to return.
Hosea 4:16
New King James Version
16 “For Israel (A)is stubborn
Like a stubborn calf;
Now the Lord will let them forage
Like a lamb in [a]open country.
Footnotes
- Hosea 4:16 Lit. a large place
Hosea 7:16
New King James Version
16 They return, but not [a]to the Most High;
(A)They are like a treacherous bow.
Their princes shall fall by the sword
For the (B)cursings of their tongue.
This shall be their derision (C)in the land of Egypt.
Footnotes
- Hosea 7:16 Or upward
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