“I (A)have listened and heard,
They have spoken what is not right;
(B)No man repented of his wickedness,
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 thrush
Observe the time of their [a]migration;
But (F)My people do not know
The ordinance of the Lord.

(G)How 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.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 8:7 Lit coming