Jeremiah 8:4–13
4 “You shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord,
“Do men afall and not get up again?
Does one turn away and not 1repent?
5 “Why then has this people, Jerusalem,
aTurned away in continual apostasy?
They bhold fast to deceit,
They crefuse to return.
6 “I ahave listened and heard,
They have spoken what is not right;
bNo man repented of his wickedness,
Saying, ‘What have I done?’
Everyone turned to his course,
Like a chorse charging into the battle.
aKnows her seasons;
And the bturtledove and the swift and the thrush
Observe the time of their 1migration;
But cMy people do not know
The ordinance of the Lord.
8 “aHow can you say, ‘We are wise,
And the law of the Lord is with us’?
But behold, the lying pen of the scribes
Has made it into a lie.
9 “The wise men are aput to shame,
They are dismayed and caught;
Behold, they have brejected the word of the Lord,
And what kind of wisdom do they have?
10 “Therefore I will agive their wives to others,
Their fields to 1new owners;
Because from the least even to the greatest
Everyone is bgreedy for gain;
From the prophet even to the priest
Everyone practices deceit.
11 “They aheal the brokenness of the daughter of My people superficially,
Saying, ‘Peace, peace,’
But there is no peace.
12 “Were they aashamed because of the abomination they had done?
They certainly were not ashamed,
And they did not know how to blush;
Therefore they shall bfall among those who fall;
At the ctime of their punishment they shall be brought down,”
Says the Lord.
13 “I will asurely snatch them away,” declares the Lord;
“There will be bno grapes on the vine
And cno figs on the fig tree,
And the leaf will wither;
And what I have given them will pass away.” ’ ”