Jeremiah 8 in plain modern English. New Ground English Translation.
"When that time comes," says Yahweh, "they will dig up the bones of the kings of Judah, the bones of its officials, the bones of the priests, the bones of the prophets, and the bones of everyone who lived in Jerusalem right out of their graves."
They will spread them out under the sun and moon and all the stars of the sky — the very things they and served, the ones they followed and consulted and bowed down to. No one will gather those bones or bury them. They will lie on the ground like dung.
And wherever I have driven them, all the survivors of this family will prefer death over life," says who
"Tell them this is what Yahweh says: When people fall down, don't they get back up? When someone wanders off the road, don't they turn around?"
So why have these people — Jerusalem — turned and never come back? They hold tight to their lies. They refuse to return.
I have listened carefully. They do not speak honestly. Not one of them regrets the done, saying, "What have I done?" Every one of them charges ahead on their own path like a horse rushing into battle.
Even the stork in the sky knows her seasons. The turtledove, the swift, and the crane observe the time of their migration. But my people do not know the of
"How can you say, 'We are wise — we have the of Yahweh'? Look — the lying pen of the scribes has turned it into a lie."
The wise will be humiliated. They will be shattered and trapped. Look — they rejected the of Yahweh. What kind of wisdom is that?
So I will give their wives to others and their fields to new owners. Because from the smallest to the greatest, every one of them is for profit. From prophet to priest, every one of them deals in lies.
They patch up the wounds of my people as if they were nothing, saying, is is fine!" But is not
Were they ashamed of the they did? No — they felt no shame at all. They didn't even know how to blush. So they will fall among those who fall. When I deal with them, they will stumble, says Yahweh.
"I will take away their harvest completely," says Yahweh. "No grapes on the vine. No figs on the tree. Even the leaves will wither. What I gave them will be taken from them."
"Why are we just sitting here? Gather together! Let's flee to the fortified cities and die there — because Yahweh our God has condemned us. He has given us to drink because we have
We hoped for — nothing good came. We hoped for a time of — and got terror instead.
The snorting of their horses can be heard from Dan. At the sound of the neighing of their stallions the whole land trembles. They are coming to devour the land and everything in it — the city and everyone who lives there.
"Look — I am sending venomous snakes among you, vipers that cannot be charmed, and they will bite you," says Yahweh.
My has no cure. My heart is sick inside me.
Listen — the cry of my people from a land far away: "Is Yahweh not in Zion? Is her King not there?" "Why have they provoked me with their carved images, with their
"The harvest is over, the summer has ended, and we are not
I am by the shattering of my people. I mourn. Horror has seized me.
Is there no in Gilead? Is there no there? Then why hasn't the of my people been restored?