Jeremiah 8:5-10
Read Jeremiah 8 in full →5“Why then has this people, Jerusalem,1,aTurned away in continual faithlessness?They bhold fast to deceit;They crefuse to return.6“I ahave given heed and heard,They have spoken what is not right;bNo man regretted his evil,Saying, ‘What have I done?’Everyone turned to his course,Like a chorse charging into the battle.7“Even the stork in the skyaKnows her seasons;And the bturtledove and the swift and the craneKeep the time of their 1migration;But cMy people do not knowThe legal judgment of Yahweh.8“aHow can you say, ‘We are wise,And the law of Yahweh is with us’?But behold, the lying pen of the scribesHas made it into a lie.9“The wise men are aput to shame;They are dismayed and captured;Behold, they have brejected the word of Yahweh,And what kind of wisdom do they have?10“Therefore I will agive their wives to others,Their fields to 1new possessors,Because from the least even to the greatestEveryone is bgreedy for gain;From the prophet even to the priestEveryone practices lying.