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I have given heed and listened,
    but they have not spoken aright;
no man repents of his wickedness,
    saying, ‘What have I done?’
Every one turns to his own course,
    like a horse plunging headlong into battle.
Even the stork in the heavens
    knows her times;
and the turtledove, swallow, and crane[a]
    keep the time of their coming;
but my people know not
    the ordinance of the Lord.

“How can you say, ‘We are wise,
    and the law of the Lord is with us’?
But behold, the false 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

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