Sin and Punishment

“Say to them, ‘This is what the Lord says:

“‘When people fall down, do they not get up?(A)
    When someone turns away,(B) do they not return?
Why then have these people turned away?
    Why does Jerusalem always turn away?
They cling to deceit;(C)
    they refuse to return.(D)
I have listened(E) attentively,
    but they do not say what is right.
None of them repent(F) of their wickedness,
    saying, “What have I done?”
Each pursues their own course(G)
    like a horse charging into battle.
Even the stork in the sky
    knows her appointed seasons,
and the dove, the swift and the thrush
    observe the time of their migration.
But my people do not know(H)
    the requirements of the Lord.

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A Stubborn People

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

“Will a person fall down and then not get up?
    Will someone turn away[a] and then not turn back again?[b]
Why has this people turned away?[c]
    Why does Jerusalem continue in apostasy?
        They hold on to deceit and refuse to repent.
I’ve listened and I’ve heard,
    and what they say is not right.
No one repents of his evil and says,
    ‘What have I done?’
“They all turn to their own course
    like a horse racing into battle.
Even the stork in the sky knows its seasons,
    and the dove, the swallow, and the crane observe the time for migration.
But my people don’t know
    the requirements[d] of the Lord.

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Notas al pie

  1. Jeremiah 8:4 Or repent
  2. Jeremiah 8:4 Or not repent
  3. Jeremiah 8:5 Lit. people committed apostasy
  4. Jeremiah 8:7 I.e. the behavior God expects of his people