So you are to tell them this is what the LORD says: "Do men fall and not get up again? Does one turn away and not return?
Cross References
Proverbs 24:16For though a righteous man may fall seven times, he still gets up; but the wicked stumble in bad times.
Amos 5:2"Fallen is Virgin Israel, never to rise again. She lies abandoned on her land, with no one to raise her up."
Micah 7:8Do not gloat over me, my enemy! Though I have fallen, I will arise; though I sit in darkness, the LORD will be my light.
Treasury of Scripture
Moreover you shall say to them, Thus said the LORD; Shall they fall, and not arise? shall he turn away, and not return?
Moreover.
shall they.
Proverbs 24:16
For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief.
Hosea 14:1
O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.
Amos 5:2
The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her land; there is none to raise her up.
turn.
Jeremiah 3:1,22
They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the LORD…
Jeremiah 4:1
If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the LORD, return unto me: and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight, then shalt thou not remove.
Jeremiah 23:14
I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.
