Jeremiah 8:5-7

English Standard Version

⁵ Why then has this people ^(A)turned away
    in perpetual ^(B)backsliding?
^(C)They hold fast to deceit;
    they refuse to return.
^6 (D)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,
    ^(E)like a horse plunging headlong into battle.
⁷ Even the stork in the heavens
    knows her times,
and ^(F)the turtledove, ^(G)swallow, and crane^[a]
    keep the time of their coming,
^(H)but my people know not
    the rules^[b] of the Lord.