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JER-8:1 At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the
bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and
the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the
bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves:
JER-8:2 And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon,
and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they
have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have
sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be
gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of
the earth.
JER-8:3 And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the
residue of them that remain of this evil family, which remain in
all the places whither I have driven them, saith the LORD of
hosts.
JER-8:4 Moreover thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD;
Shall they fall, and not arise? shall he turn away, and not
return?
JER-8:5 Why [then] is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a
perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to
return.
JER-8:6 I hearkened and heard, [but] they spake not aright: no
man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done?
every one turned to his course, as the horse rusheth into the
battle.
JER-8:7 Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times;
and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time
of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.
JER-8:8 How do ye say, We [are] wise, and the law of the LORD
[is] with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he [it]; the pen of the
scribes [is] in vain.
JER-8:9 The wise [men] are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken:
lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom
[is] in them?
JER-8:10 Therefore will I give their wives unto others, [and]
their fields to them that shall inherit [them]: for every one
from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness,
from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.
JER-8:11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my
people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when [there is] no peace.
JER-8:12 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination?
nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush:
therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of
their visitation they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.
JER-8:13 I will surely consume them, saith the LORD: [there
shall be] no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and
the leaf shall fade; and [the things that] I have given them
shall pass away from them.
JER-8:14 Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us
enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for
the LORD our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of
gall to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.
JER-8:15 We looked for peace, but no good [came; and] for a time
of health, and behold trouble!
JER-8:16 The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan: the
whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong
ones; for they are come, and have devoured the land, and all
that is in it; the city, and those that dwell therein.
JER-8:17 For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among
you, which [will] not [be] charmed, and they shall bite you,
saith the LORD.
JER-8:18 [When] I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart
[is] faint in me.
JER-8:19 Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my
people because of them that dwell in a far country: [Is] not the
LORD in Zion? [is] not her king in her? Why have they provoked
me to anger with their graven images, [and] with strange
vanities?
JER-8:20 The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are
not saved.
JER-8:21 For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I
am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.
JER-8:22 [Is there] no balm in Gilead; [is there] no physician
there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people
recovered?
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