Hosea 4:16
"For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place."
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- 1 Samuel 15:11
"It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king: for he is turned back from following me, and hath not performed my commandments. And it grieved Samuel; and he cried unto the LORD all night."
Read in chapter → - Jeremiah 5:6
"Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased."
Read in chapter → - Isaiah 22:18
"He will surely violently turn and toss thee like a ball into a large country: there shalt thou die, and there the chariots of thy glory shall be the shame of thy lord's house."
Read in chapter → - Jeremiah 14:7
"O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou it for thy name's sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against thee."
Read in chapter → - Jeremiah 7:24
"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."
Read in chapter → - Jeremiah 3:6
"The LORD said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot."
Read in chapter → - Jeremiah 8:5
"Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return."
Read in chapter → - Hosea 11:7
"And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him."
Read in chapter → - Isaiah 5:17
"Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat."
Read in chapter → - Jeremiah 3:8
"And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also."
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