Jeremiah 8:4-7

Modern English Version

Do men fall and not arise?
    Do they turn away and not repent?
⁵ Why then is this people of Jerusalem
    turned away by a perpetual backsliding?
They hold fast to deceit;
    they refuse to return.
⁶ I listened and heard,
    but they did not speak what is right.
No man repented of his wickedness,
    saying, “What have I done?”
Everyone turned to his course,
    as the horse rushes into the battle.
⁷ Indeed, the stork in the sky
    knows her appointed times.
And the turtledove and the crane and the swallow
    observe the time of their coming.
But My people do not know
    the judgment of the Lord.