Jeremiah 8:4-7

Common English Bible

⁴ Say to them, The Lord proclaims:
When people fall down, don’t they get up?
    When they turn aside, don’t they turn back?
⁵ Why then does this people, rebellious Jerusalem,
    persistently turn away from me?
They cling to deceit
    and refuse to return.
⁶ I have listened carefully
    but haven’t heard a word of truth from them.
No one regrets their wrongdoing;
    no one says, “What have I done?”
Everyone turns to their own course,
    like a stallion dashing into the thick of battle.
⁷ Even the stork in the sky knows the seasons,
    and the dove, swallow,^[a] and crane^[b]
        return in due time.
            But my people don’t know the Lord’s ways.