Jeremiah 8:4-6

Contemporary English Version

The People Took the Wrong Road

⁴The Lord said:

People of Jerusalem,
when you stumble and fall,
    you get back up,
and if you take a wrong road,
    you turn around and go back.^[a]
⁵So why do you refuse
    to come back to me?
Why do you hold so tightly
    to your false gods?

⁶I listen carefully,
but none of you admit
    that you've done wrong.
Without a second thought,
you run down the wrong road^[b]
    like horses running blindly
    into battle.

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Footnotes

8.4 if you take … go back: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.
8.6 you run down the wrong road: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.