Jeremiah 8:3-5

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³Death shall be preferred to life by all the remnant that remains of this evil family in all the places where I have driven them, says the Lord of hosts.

The Blind Perversity of the Whole Nation

⁴You shall say to them, Thus says the Lord:
When people fall, do they not get up again?
    If they go astray, do they not turn back?
⁵Why then has this people^[a] turned away
    in perpetual backsliding?
They have held fast to deceit,
    they have refused to return.

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Jeremiah 8:5 One Ms Gk: MT this people, Jerusalem,

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