“You shall say to them, ‘This is what the Lord says:

“Do people (A)fall and not get up?
Does one turn away and not [a]repent?
Why has this people, Jerusalem,
(B)Turned away in continual apostasy?
They (C)hold on to deceit,
They (D)refuse to return.
I (E)have listened and heard,
They have spoken what is not right;
(F)No one repented of his wickedness,
Saying, ‘What have I done?’
Everyone turned to his own course,
Like a (G)horse charging into the battle.
Even the stork in the sky
(H)Knows her seasons;
And the (I)turtledove, the swallow, and the crane
Keep to the time of their [b]migration;
But (J)My people do not know
The judgment of the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 8:4 Lit turn back
  2. Jeremiah 8:7 Lit coming

16 Since Israel is (A)stubborn
Like a stubborn cow,
[a]Will the Lord now (B)pasture them
Like a lamb in a large field?

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 4:16 Or The Lord will now pasture...field.

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