Jeremiah 8:6-8

Common English Bible

⁶ I have listened carefully
    but haven’t heard a word of truth from them.
No one regrets their wrongdoing;
    no one says, “What have I done?”
Everyone turns to their own course,
    like a stallion dashing into the thick of battle.
⁷ Even the stork in the sky knows the seasons,
    and the dove, swallow,^[a] and crane^[b]
        return in due time.
            But my people don’t know the Lord’s ways.
⁸ How can you say, “We are wise;
    we possess the Lord’s Instruction,”
        when the lying pen of the scribes has surely distorted it?