Jeremiah 8:5-9
New American Standard Bible
5 Why has this people, Jerusalem,
(A)Turned away in continual apostasy?
They (B)hold on to deceit,
They (C)refuse to return.
6 I (D)have listened and heard,
They have spoken what is not right;
(E)No one repented of his wickedness,
Saying, ‘What have I done?’
Everyone turned to his own course,
Like a (F)horse charging into the battle.
7 Even the stork in the sky
(G)Knows her seasons;
And the (H)turtledove, the swallow, and the crane
Keep to the time of their [a]migration;
But (I)My people do not know
The judgment of the Lord.
8 “(J)How can you say, ‘We are wise,
And the Law of the Lord is with us’?
But behold, the lying pen of the scribes
Has made it into a lie.
9 The wise men are (K)put to shame,
They are dismayed and caught;
Behold, they have (L)rejected the word of the Lord,
So what kind of wisdom do they have?
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 8:7 Lit coming
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