Jeremiah 15:6

Thou hast forsaken me, saith the LORD, thou art gone backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; I am weary with repenting.

Thou hast forsaken {H5203} me, saith {H5002} the LORD {H3068}, thou art gone {H3212} backward {H268}: therefore will I stretch out {H5186} my hand {H3027} against thee, and destroy {H7843} thee; I am weary {H3811} with repenting {H5162}.

You have rejected me," says ADONAI. "You are heading backward. So I am stretching out my hand against you; tired of sparing you, I am destroying you.

You have forsaken Me, declares the LORD. You have turned your back. So I will stretch out My hand against you and I will destroy you; I am weary of showing compassion.

Thou hast rejected me, saith Jehovah, thou art gone backward: therefore have I stretched out my hand against thee, and destroyed thee; I am weary with repenting.

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Cross-References

  • Jeremiah 7:24 (9 votes)

    But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels [and] in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.

  • Zephaniah 1:4 (5 votes)

    I will also stretch out mine hand upon Judah, and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place, [and] the name of the Chemarims with the priests;

  • Zechariah 7:11 (4 votes)

    But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.

  • Hosea 11:7 (4 votes)

    And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt [him].

  • Isaiah 1:4 (4 votes)

    Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.

  • Hosea 13:14 (3 votes)

    I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.

  • Jeremiah 6:19 (3 votes)

    Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, [even] the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it.