Jeremiah 8:5–10

5 Why then is this people of Jerusalem mslidden back by a perpetual nbacksliding? othey hold fast deceit, pthey refuse to return. 6 I qhearkened and heard, but they spake not aright: no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to rhis course, as the horse srusheth tinto the battle. 7 Yea, uthe vstork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and ythe turtle and zthe crane and zthe swallow observe the time of their coming; but u amy people know not the judgment of the Lord. 8 How do ye say, We are wise, and bthe law of the Lord is with us? Lo, certainly ||in vain made he it; cthe pen of the scribes is in vain. 9 ||dThe wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and etaken: lo, they have rejected the word of the Lord; and †what wisdom is in them? 10 Therefore fwill I give their wives unto others, and their fields to them that shall inherit them: for every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness, from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.

m	See ch. 7:24.
n	See ch. 2:19.
o	So ch. 9:6.
p	So ch. 5:3.
q	Comp. 2 Pet. 3:9.
r	ch. 22:17. & 23:10 in the Heb.
s	Heb. as Isai. 30:28. Ezek. 13:11, 13.
t	So Job 39:21.
u	So Isai. 1:3.
v	See Job 39:13.
y	See Cant. 2:12.
z	Is 38:14
z	Is 38:14
u	So Isai. 1:3.
a	ch. 5:4, 5. So Isai. 27:11.
b	Comp. Rom. 2:17, 18.
\|\|	Or, the false pen of the scribes worketh for falsehood. Comp. Isai. 10:1.
c	See Ps. 45:1.
\|\|	Or, Have they been ashamed, &c. As ver. 12.
d	See 1 Cor. 1:19.
e	Job 5:13. ch. 6:11.
†	Heb. the wisdom of what thing.
f	To ver. 12, ch. 6:12–15.