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I have given heed and listened,
    but they do not speak honestly;
no one repents of wickedness,
    saying, ‘What have I done!’
All of them turn to their own course,
    like a horse plunging headlong into battle.
Even the stork in the heavens
    knows its times;
and the turtle-dove, swallow, and crane[a]
    observe the time of their coming;
but my people do not know
    the ordinance of the Lord.

How can you say, ‘We are wise,
    and the law of the Lord is with us’,
when, in fact, the false pen of the scribes
    has made it into a lie?

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 8:7 Meaning of Heb uncertain

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