rsv Jeremiah:8:4-9
rsv@Jeremiah:8:4 @ "You shall say to them, Thus says the LORD: When men fall, do they not rise again? If one turns away, does he not return?
rsv@Jeremiah:8:5 @ Why then has this people turned away in perpetual backsliding? They hold fast to deceit, they refuse to return.
rsv@Jeremiah:8:6 @ I have given heed and listened, but they have not spoken aright; no man repents of his wickedness, saying, `What have I done?' Every one turns to his own course, like a horse plunging headlong into battle.
rsv@Jeremiah:8:7 @ Even the stork in the heavens knows her times; and the turtledove, swallow, and crane keep the time of their coming; but my people know not the ordinance of the LORD.
rsv@Jeremiah:8:8 @ "How can you say, `We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us'? But, behold, the false pen of the scribes has made it into a lie.
rsv@Jeremiah:8:9 @ The wise men shall be put to shame, they shall be dismayed and taken; lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD, and what wisdom is in them?