Jeremiah Chapter 8
8:1 | At that ![]() ![]() ![]() |
8:2 | And they shall spread them before the ![]() ![]() |
8:3 | And ![]() ![]() |
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? |
8:5 | Why [then] is this people of ![]() |
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. |
8:7 | Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed ![]() ![]() |
8:8 | How ![]() |
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? |
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. |
8:11 | For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when [there is] no peace. |
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 ![]() |
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. |
8:14 | Why ![]() ![]() ![]() |
8:15 | We looked for peace, but no good [came; and] for a ![]() |
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. |
8:17 | For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which [will] not [be] charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD. |
8:18 | [When] I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart [is] faint in me. |
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 ![]() |
8:20 | The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved. |
8:21 | For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me. |
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? |