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Jeremiah 8
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8"At that time the bones of the kings and of the officials of Judah, as well as the bones of the priests, of the prophets, and of the other people who lived in Jerusalem, will be taken out of their graves.H6256H5002H3068H3318H6106H4428H3063H6106H8269H6106H3548H6106H5030H6106H3427H3389H6913
2Instead of being gathered and buried, their bones will be like manure lying on the ground. They will be spread out before the sun, the moon, and the stars, which these people have loved and served, and which they have consulted and worshiped.H7849H8121H3394H6635H8064H157H5647H310H1980H1875H7812H622H6912H1828H6440H127
3And the people of this evil nation who survive, who live in the places where I have scattered them, will prefer to die rather than to go on living. I, the LORD Almighty, have spoken."H4194H977H2416H7611H7604H7451H4940H7604H4725H5080H5002H3068H6635

Sin and Punishment

4The LORD told me to say to his people, "When someone falls down, doesn't he get back up? If someone misses the road, doesn't he turn back?H559H559H3068H5307H6965H7725H7725
5Why then, my people, do you turn away from me without ever turning back? You cling to your idols and refuse to return to me.H5971H3389H7725H5329H4878H2388H8649H3985H7725
6I listened carefully, but you did not speak the truth. Not one of you has been sorry for your wickedness; not one of you has asked, 'What have I done wrong?' Each of you keep on going your own way, like a horse rushing into battle.H7181H8085H1696H376H5162H5921H7451H559H6213H7725H4794H5483H7857H4421
7Even storks know when it is time to return; doves, swallows, and thrushes know when it is time to migrate. But, my people, you do not know the laws by which I rule you.H2624H8064H3045H4150H8449H5483H5693H8104H6256H935H5971H3045H4941H3068
8How can you say that you are wise and that you know my laws? Look, the laws have been changed by dishonest scribes.H559H2450H8451H3068H403H8267H6213H5842H5608H8267
9Your wise men are put to shame; they are confused and trapped. They have rejected my words; what wisdom do they have now?H2450H3001H2865H3920H3988H1697H3068H2451
10So I will give their fields to new owners and their wives to other men. Everyone, great and small, tries to make money dishonestly. Even prophets and priests cheat the people.H5414H802H312H7704H3423H6996H1419H1214H1215H5030H3548H6213H8267
11They act as if my people's wounds were only scratches. 'All is well,' they say, when all is not well.H7495H7667H1323H5971H7043H559H7965H7965H7965
12My people, were you ashamed because you did these disgusting things? No, you were not ashamed at all; you don't even know how to blush! And so you will fall as others have fallen; when I punish you, that will be the end of you. I, the LORD, have spoken.H3001H6213H8441H954H954H3045H3637H5307H5307H6256H6486H3782H559H3068
13"I wanted to gather my people, as a farmer gathers a harvest; but they are like a vine with no grapes, like a fig tree with no figs; even the leaves have withered. Therefore, I have allowed outsiders to take over the land."H622H5486H5002H3068H6025H1612H8384H8384H5929H5034H5414H5674
14"Why are we sitting still?" God's people ask. "Come on, we will run to the fortified cities and die there. The LORD our God has condemned us to die; he has given us poison to drink, because we have sinned against him.H3427H622H935H4013H5892H1826H3068H430H1826H4325H7219H8248H2398H3068
15We hoped for peace and a time of healing, but it was no use; terror came instead.H6960H7965H2896H6256H4832H1205
16Our enemies are already in the city of Dan; we hear the snorting of their horses. The whole land trembles when their horses neigh. Our enemies have come to destroy our land and everything in it, our city and all its people."H5170H5483H8085H1835H776H7493H6963H4684H47H935H398H776H4393H5892H3427
17"Watch out!" the LORD says, "I am sending snakes among you, poisonous snakes that cannot be charmed, and they will bite you."H7971H5175H6848H3908H5391H5002H3068

Jeremiah’s Sorrow for His People

18My sorrow cannot be healed; I am sick at heart.H4010H3015H3820H1742
19Listen! Throughout the land I hear my people crying out, "Is the LORD no longer in Zion? Is Zion's king no longer there?" The LORD, their king, replies, "Why have you made me angry by worshiping your idols and by bowing down to your useless foreign gods?"H6963H7775H1323H5971H4801H776H3068H6726H4428H3707H6456H5236H1892
20The people cry out, "The summer is gone, the harvest is over, but we have not been saved."H7105H5674H7019H3615H3467
21My heart has been crushed because my people are crushed; I mourn; I am completely dismayed.H7667H1323H5971H7665H6937H8047H2388
22Is there no medicine in Gilead? Are there no doctors there? Why, then, have my people not been healed?H6875H1568H7495H3588H724H1323H5971H5927


Good News Translation. Scripture taken from the Good News Translation in Today’s English Version- Second Edition Copyright © 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission. More details.
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