Jeremiah 5:23
Good News Translation
But you people! You are stubborn and rebellious; you have turned aside and left me.

New Revised Standard Version
But this people has a stubborn and rebellious heart; they have turned aside and gone away.

Contemporary English Version
You stubborn people have rebelled and turned your backs on me.

New American Bible
But this people’s heart is stubborn and rebellious; they turn and go away,

Douay-Rheims Bible
But the heart of this people is become hard of belief and provoking, they are revolted and gone away.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But the heart of this people is become hard of belief and provoking, they are revolted and gone away.

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Jeremiah 5:5 I will go therefore to the great men, and will speak to them: for they have known the way of the Lord, the judgment of their God: and behold these have altogether broken the yoke more, and have burst the bonds.

Jeremiah 6:28 All these princes go out of the way, they walk deceitfully, they are brass and iron: they are all corrupted.

Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is perverse above all things, and unsearchable, who can know it?

Psalm 95:10 Forty years long was I offended with that generation, and I said: These always err in heart.

Isaiah 1:5 For what shall I strike you any more, you that increase transgression? the whole head is sick, and the whole heart is sad.

Isaiah 31:6 Return as you had deeply revolted, O children of Israel.

Hosea 4:8 They shall eat the sins of my people, and shall lift up their souls to their iniquity.

Hosea 11:7 And my people shall long for my return: but a yoke shall be put upon them together, which shall not be taken off.

Hebrews 3:12 Take heed, brethren, lest perhaps there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, to depart from the living God.

Context
Judgment Proclaimed
22Will not you then fear me, saith the Lord: and will you not repent at my presence? I have set the sand a bound for the sea, an everlasting ordinance, which it shall not pass over: and the waves thereof shall toss themselves, and shall not prevail: they shall swell, and shall not pass over it. 23But the heart of this people is become hard of belief and provoking, they are revolted and gone away.24And they have not said in their heart: Let us fear the Lord our God, who giveth us the early and the latter rain in due season: who preserveth for us the fulness of the yearly harvest.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 21:18
If a man have a stubborn and unruly son, who will not hear the commandments of his father or mother, and being corrected, slighteth obedience:

Psalm 78:8
That they may not become like their fathers, a perverse and exasperating generation. A generation that set not their heart aright: and whose spirit was not faithful to God.

Jeremiah 4:17
They are set round about her, as keepers of fields: because she hath provoked me to wrath, saith the Lord.

Jeremiah 6:28
All these princes go out of the way, they walk deceitfully, they are brass and iron: they are all corrupted.

Zephaniah 3:1
Woe to the provoking and redeemed city, the dove.

Jeremiah 5:22
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