Jeremiah 8:4-7

International Children’s Bible

When a man falls down, doesn’t he get up again?
    And when a man goes the wrong way, doesn’t he come back again?
⁵ Why, then, have the people of Judah gone the wrong way?
    And why do the people of Jerusalem not turn back?
They believe their own lies.
    They refuse to turn around and come back.
⁶ I have listened to them very carefully.
    But they do not say what is right.
They do not feel sorry about their wicked ways.
    The people don’t think about the bad things they have done.
Each person goes his own way.
    He is like a horse charging into a battle.
⁷ Even the birds in the sky
    know the right times to do things.
The storks, doves, swifts and thrushes
    know when it is time to migrate.
But my people don’t know
    what the Lord wants them to do!