Jeremiah 8:4-7

New International Reader's Version

“ ‘ “When people fall down, don’t they get up again?
    When someone turns away, don’t they come back?
⁵ Then why have the people of Jerusalem turned away from me?
    Why do they always turn away?
They keep on telling lies.
    They refuse to come back to me.
⁶ I have listened carefully.
    But they do not say what is right.
They refuse to turn away from their sins.
    None of them says, ‘What have I done?’
Each of them goes their own way.
    They are like horses charging into battle.
⁷ Storks know when to fly south.
    So do doves, swifts and thrushes.
But my people do not know
    what I require them to do.