"Therefore you shall speak all these words to them, but they will not obey you. You shall also call to them, but they will not answer you
"So you shall say to them, 'This is a nation that does not obey the voice of the Lord their God nor receive correction. Truth has perished and has been cut off from their mouth...........
The corpses of this people will be food for the birds of the heaven and for the beasts of the earth. And no one will frighten them away. Then I will cause to cease from the cities of Judah and from the streets of Jerusalem the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness,
They hold fast to deceit, They refuse to return. I listened and heard, But they do not speak aright.
No man repented of his wickedness, Saying, 'What have I done?' Everyone turned to his own course, As the horse rushes into the battle......
"Even the stork in the heavens Knows her appointed times; And the turtledove, the swift, and the swallow
Observe the time of their coming. But My people do not know the judgment of the Lord.
"How can you say, 'We are wise, And the law of the Lord is with us'?
Look, the false pen of the scribe certainly works falsehood. The wise men are ashamed, They are dismayed and taken.
Behold, they have rejected the word of the Lord; So what wisdom do they have?
Therefore I will give their wives to others,And their fields to those who will inherit them; Because from the least even to the greatest
Everyone is given to covetousness; From the prophet even to the priest Everyone deals falsely.
For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of My people slightly, Saying, 'Peace, peace!' When there is no peace.
Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination?
No! They were not at all ashamed, Nor did they know how to blush. Therefore they shall fall among those who fall;
In the time of their punishment They shall be cast down," says the Lord.
"I will surely consume them," says the Lord. "No grapes shall be on the vine,
Nor figs on the fig tree, And the leaf shall fade; And the things I have given them shall pass away from them."'"....
"We looked for peace, but no good came; And for a time of health, and there was trouble!
I would comfort myself in sorrow; My heart is faint in me. Listen! The voice,
The cry of the daughter of my people From a far country: "Is not the Lord in Zion?
Is not her King in her?
""Why have they provoked Me to anger With their carved images-- With foreign idols?
"The harvest is past, The summer is ended,
And we are not saved!" For the hurt of the daughter of my people I am hurt. I am mourning;
Astonishment has taken hold of me.
Is there no balm in Gilead, Is there no physician there?
Why then is there no recovery For the health of the daughter of my people?
Jeremiah 7-8
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