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JEREMIAH 8:7–9:1 Shameless guilty acts. No peace or healing 976
dashing into the battle. 7 Even
the stork in the heavens—it well
knows its appointed times; a and
the turtledove b and the swift and
the bulbul—they observe well the
time of each one’s coming in. But
as for my people, they have not
come to know the judgment of
Jehovah.” ’ c
8 “‘How canYOU men say: “We
are wise, and the law of Jehovah
is with us”? d Surely,
now, the false stylus e of the
secretaries has worked in
sheer falsehood. 9 The wise
ones have become ashamed. f
They have become terrified and
will be caught. Look! They have
rejected the very word of Jehovah,
and what wisdom do they
have? g 10 Therefore I shall give
their wives to other men, their
fields to those taking possession;
h for, from the least one even
to the greatest one, each one is
making unjust gain; i from the
prophet even to the priest, each
one is acting falsely. j 11 And
they try to heal the breakdown of
the daughter of my people lightly,
k saying: “There is peace! There
is peace!” when there is no
peace. l 12 Did they feel shame
because they had done even what
was detestable? m For one thing,
they positively could not feel
ashamed; for another thing, they
did not know even how to feel humiliated.
n
“‘Therefore they will fall
among those who are falling. In
the time of their being given attention,
o they will stumble,’ Jehovah
has said. p
13 “‘When doing the gathering,
I shall bring them to their
finish,’ is the utterance of Jehovah.
q ‘There will be no grapes on
the vine, r and there will be no
figs on the fig tree, and the foliage
itself will certainly wither.
And things that I give to them
will pass by them.’ ”
14 “Why are we sitting still?
Gather yourselves together, and
CHAP. 8
a Isa 1:3
b Ca 2:12
c Jer 5:4
d Ho 8:12
Ro 2:17
e Isa 8:1
f Isa 29:14
g De 4:6
Ps 19:7
2Ti 3:15
h De 28:30
Jer 6:12
Am 5:11
Zep 1:13
i Isa 56:11
Jer 6:13
Eze 33:31
Mic 3:11
Tit 1:11
j Jer 5:31
Jer 27:9
La 2:14
La 4:13
Eze 22:28
k Job 13:4
Jer 6:14
l Jer 23:17
Eze 13:10
m Jer 6:15
n Jer 3:3
Php 3:19
o Isa 10:3
Jer 23:12
p De 32:35
q Eze 22:20
r Isa 24:7
Joe 1:7
Second Col.
a Jer 4:5
b La 3:28
c Jer 9:15
Jer 23:15
La 3:19
d Jer 4:10
Jer 14:19
Mic 1:12
e Jer 4:15
f Jg 18:29
1Ki 15:20
g Jg 5:22
Jer 47:3
h De 32:24
i Ps 58:5
Ec 10:11
j Jer 10:19
k Isa 39:3
l Ps 135:21
Isa 12:6
m Ps 146:10
Ps 149:2
Isa 33:22
n De 32:21
o Isa 30:15
Jer 4:14
p Isa 1:5
Jer 6:14
Jer 30:15
La 3:47
q Jer 4:19
Jer 14:17
r Joe 2:6
Na 2:10
s Ge 37:25
Ge 43:11
Jer 46:11
t Jer 30:13
u Isa 58:8
Jer 30:17
Jer 33:6
v Jer 30:12
let us enter into the fortified cities
a and be silent there. For Jehovah
our God has himself put us
to silence, b and he gives us poisoned
water to drink, c because
we have sinned against Jehovah.
15 There was a hoping for
peace, but no good came; d for a
time of healing, but, look! terror! e
16 From Dan f has been heard
the snorting of his horses. Due to
the sound of the neighing of his
stallions the whole land has begun
to rock. g And they come in
and eat up the land and what fills
it, the city and its inhabitants.”
17 “For here I am sending in
among YOU serpents, poisonous
snakes, h for which there is no
charming, i and they will certainly
bite YOU,” is the utterance of
Jehovah.
18 A grief that is beyond curing
has come up into me. j My
heart is ill. 19 Here there is the
sound of the cry for help of the
daughter of my people from a
land far away: k “Is Jehovah not in
Zion? l Or is her king not in
her?” m
“Why is it that they have offended
me with their graven images,
with their vain foreign
gods?” n
20 “The harvest has passed,
the summer has come to an end;
butasforus,wehavenotbeen
saved!” o
21 Over the breakdown p of
the daughter of my people I have
become shattered. q Ihavegrown
sad. Outright astonishment has
seized hold of me. r 22 Is there
no balsam in Gile·ad? s Or is
there no healer there? t Why is it,
then, that the recuperation u of
the daughter of my people has
not come up? v
9
O that my head were waters,
and that my eyes were
a source of tears! w Then I could
weep day and night for the slain
CHAP. 9 w Isa 22:4; Jer 13:17; La 2:11.