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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? 10 Therefore I will give their wives to others, and their fields to those possessing them; for from the least and to the greatest, everyone is greedy for dishonest gain; from the prophet and to the priest, everyone deals falsely. 11 And they have healed the breaking of the daughter of My people upon being light, saying, ‘Peace, peace, when there is no peace. 12 Were they ashamed when they did the abomination? No, they were not ashamed at all, and they did not know how to blush! Therefore they shall fall among those falling; in the time of their punishment, they shall be cast down, says YHWH. 13 Surely I will consume them,’ a declaration of YHWH, no grapes will be on the vine, and no figs on the fig tree; and the leaf is withered, and the things I have given to them pass away from them.” 14 Why are we sitting? Gather yourselves, and let us go into the fortified cities, and let us be silent there, for YHWH our God has made us perish, and given us water of gall, because we have sinned against YHWH— 15 looking for peace, and no good has come, and for a time of health, and behold, terror! 16 From Dan is heard the snorting of his horses, the whole land quakes from the voice of the neighing of His mighty ones; and they will come and consume the land and its fullness, the city and those dwelling in it. 17 “For behold, I am sending you? among serpents—vipers that there is not unto them a charm, and they will bite you?,” a declaration of YHWH. 18 My sorrow is beyond healing; My heart is faint within me. 19 Behold! The voice of the outcry of the daughter of my people, from a land far away: “Is YHWH not in Zion? Is her King not in her?” “Why have they provoked Me with their carved images, with foreign idols?” 20 “The harvest has passed, the summer has ended, and we have not been saved.” 21 Because of the breaking of the daughter of my people, I am broken; I am mourning; dismay has seized me. 22 Is no balm in Gilead? Is a healer not there? Then why does not go up the health of the daughter of my people? Jeremiah 8:8-22, Berean Literal Bible. Public domain.
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