Jeremiah 8:1-9 ▼

1 “At that time,” a declaration of YHWH, “They shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of its princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of those dwelling in Jerusalem, out from their graves.

2 And they will spread them out before the sun, and before the moon, and before all the host of the heavens, which they have loved, and which they have served, and which they have walked after them, and which they have sought, and which they have bowed down to them. They will not be gathered, and they will be buried; they will be like dung over the face of the land.

3 And they will choose and death over life for all the remant remaining of this evil family, those remaining in all the places where I have driven them!” A declaration of YHWH of Hosts.

4 And you shall say to them, thus says YHWH! “Will they fall, and not rise? Will they turn away, and not return?

5 Why is this people of Jerusalem turned away by a perpetual backsliding? They hold firmly to deceit, they refuse to return.

6 I paid attention and listened; they did not speak what is right; there was no man repenting over his wickedness, saying, ‘What have I done?’ Everyone turned to his own course, like a horse rushing into the battle.

7 Even the stork in the heavens knows her appointed times, and the turtledove and the swift and the thrush watch over the time of their coming; and My people do not know the judgment of YHWH.

8 How can you? say, ‘We are wise and the law of YHWH is with us?’ Truly behold—in falsehood he made it; the pen of the scribes is false.

9 The wise ones have been put to shame, they are dismayed and captured; behold, they have rejected the word of YHWH—what wisdom is unto them?