(A)I have paid attention and listened,
    but they have not spoken rightly;
no man relents of his evil,
    saying, ‘What have I done?’
Everyone turns to his own course,
    (B)like a horse plunging headlong into battle.
Even the stork in the heavens
    knows her times,
and (C)the turtledove, (D)swallow, and crane[a]
    keep the time of their coming,
(E)but my people know not
    the rules[b] of the Lord.

(F)“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.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 8:7 The meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain
  2. Jeremiah 8:7 Or just decrees

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