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Jeremiah 8 📜 📕 ↷
5 Why then is this people in Jerusalem turned away with a contentious revolting? They have apprehended lying, and would not return.📜💬📚
6 I attended, and harkened: no man speaketh that which is good, there is none that doth penance for his sin, saying: What have I done? They are all turned to their own course, as an horse going with violence to battle.📜💬📚
7 The kite in the heaven hath known her time: the turtle, and the swallow, and the stork have observed the time of their coming: but my people have not known the judgement of the Lord.📜💬📚
8 How say you: We are wise, and the law of our Lord is with us? In very deed the lying pen of the Scribes hath wrought lying.📜💬📚
9 The wise are confounded, they are terrified and taken: for they have cast away the word of our Lord, and there is no wisdom in them.📜💬📚
10 Therefore will I give their women to strangers, their fields to inheritours: because from the least even to the greatest all follow avarice: from the Prophet even to the Priest all make lies.📜💬📚
11 And they healed the destruction of the daughter of my people to ignominy, saying: Peace, peace, when there was not peace.📜💬📚
12 They are confounded, because they have done abomination: yea rather they are not confounded with confusion, and they have not known how to blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall, in the time of their visitation they shall fall, saith our Lord.📜💬📚
13 Gathering I will gather them together, saith our Lord, there is no grape in the vines, and there are no figs on the figtree, the leaf is fallen down: and I have given them the things that are passed.📜💬📚
People Respond
14 Why do we sit? Come together and let us enter into the fenced city, and let us be silent there: because the Lord our God hath made us to be silent, and hath given us water of gall for drink: for we have sinned to our Lord.📜💬📚
15 We expected peace and there was no good: a time of medicine and behold fear.📜💬📚
16 From Dan was the snoring noise of his horses heard, with the voice of the neighings of his fighting horses all the land was moved: and they came and devoured the land, and the fullness thereof: the city & the inhabitants thereof.📜💬📚
17 For behold I will send you serpents basilisks, for which there is no enchantment: and they shall bite you, saith our Lord.📜💬📚
Jeremiah Weeps for His People
18 My sorrow is above sorrow, my heart mourning within me.📜💬📚
19 Behold the voice of the daughter of my people from a far country: Is not our Lord in Sion: or is not her king in her? Why then have they provoked me to wrath in their sculptiles, & in strange vanities?📜💬📚
20 The harvest is past, summer is ended: and we are not saved.📜💬📚
21 For the affliction of the daughter of my people I am afflicted, and made sorrowful, astonishment hath taken me.📜💬📚
22 Is there no rosin in Galaad? Or is there no physician there? Why then is not the wound of the daughter of my people closed?📜💬📚
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