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Jeremiah 8:6-8
Contemporary English Version
Jeremiah 8:6-8
Contemporary English Version
6 I listen carefully,
but none of you admit
that you've done wrong.
Without a second thought,
you run down the wrong road[a]
like horses running blindly
into battle.
7 Storks, doves, swallows,
and thrushes
all know when it's time
to fly away for the winter
and when to come back.
But you, my people,
don't know what I demand.
8 You say, “We are wise
because we have the teachings
and laws of the Lord.”
But I say that your teachers
have turned my words
into lies!
Footnotes
- 8.6 you run down the wrong road: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.
Jeremiah 8:6-8
New International Version
Jeremiah 8:6-8
New International Version
6 I have listened(A) attentively,
but they do not say what is right.
None of them repent(B) of their wickedness,
saying, “What have I done?”
Each pursues their own course(C)
like a horse charging into battle.
7 Even the stork in the sky
knows her appointed seasons,
and the dove, the swift and the thrush
observe the time of their migration.
But my people do not know(D)
the requirements of the Lord.
8 “‘How can you say, “We are wise,
for we have the law(E) of the Lord,”
when actually the lying pen of the scribes
has handled it falsely?
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