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I (A)have given heed and heard,
They have spoken what is not right;
(B)No man regretted his evil,
Saying, ‘What have I done?’
Everyone turned to his course,
Like a (C)horse charging into the battle.
Even the stork in the sky
(D)Knows her seasons;
And the (E)turtledove and the swift and the crane
Keep the time of their [a]migration;
But (F)My people do not know
The legal judgment of Yahweh.

(G)How can you say, ‘We are wise,
And the law of Yahweh is with us’?
But behold, the lying pen of the scribes
Has made it into a lie.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 8:7 Lit coming