Jeremiah 8:7-9

Easy-to-Read Version

⁷Even the birds in the sky
    know the right time to do things.
The storks, doves, swifts, and thrushes
    know when it is time to fly to a new home.
But my people don’t know
    what the Lord wants them to do.

⁸“‘You keep saying, “We have the Lord’s teachings. So we are wise!”
    But this is not true, because the scribes have lied with their pens.
⁹These “wise people” refused to listen to the Lord’s teachings.
    So they are not really wise at all.
These “wise people” were trapped.
    They became shocked and ashamed.