Jeremiah 8:6-8

Contemporary English Version

⁶ I listen carefully,
but none of you admit
    that you've done wrong.
Without a second thought,
you run down the wrong road^[a]
    like horses running blindly
    into battle.

⁷ Storks, doves, swallows,
and thrushes
    all know when it's time
to fly away for the winter
    and when to come back.
But you, my people,
    don't know what I demand.
⁸ You say, “We are wise
because we have the teachings
    and laws of the Lord.”
But I say that your teachers
have turned my words
    into lies!