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# General Information
The prophecy revealed to Jeremiah is recorded in 8:5-9:12. Despite covering more than one chapter, this should be seen as one unit. The ULB sets poetry (8:5-22) farther to the right than the rest of the text to show that it is poetry.
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# Why has this people, Jerusalem, turned away in permanent apostasy?
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"It does not make sense that this people, Jerusalem, has turned away in permanent apostasy."
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# Jerusalem
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"Judah"
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# hold on to deceit
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What the people of Judah were doing is spoken of as if they were clinging to deceit and would not let it go.
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# They hold on to deceit
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"They refuse to turn away from what deceives them" or "They love the people who deceive them"
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