Jeremiah 8:4-7

The Voice

⁴ Eternal One (to Jeremiah): Tell My people that these are My words:
        “When people stumble and fall, don’t they get up again?
    When people are lost, don’t they try to find their way back?

⁵     So why have these people turned away from Me
        and refused to come back?
    They hang onto lies that lead them further away
        instead of embracing the truth and coming home to Me.
⁶     I listen intently for someone, anyone, to speak the truth.
        But it never happens. No one corrects his lies.
    No one regrets his evil, saying, ‘What have I done?’
        Instead, everyone keeps running farther down that path, away from Me,
    Like a horse charging into a battle.
⁷     Even the stork in the sky knows her time to migrate.
        The dove, the swallow, and the crane
    All take flight when the time is right.
        But not so with My people.
    They do not know or care about the Eternal’s commands.”