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Listen I never so attentively, wholesome word I hear none; never a man that repents of his sin, asks himself what his life has been. No, each one follows his own bent, reckless as war-horse charging into battle. (Jeremiah 8, 6)
What, still boasting that you are wise, that the Lord’s law finds its home among you? Nay, but the scribes, with their false penmanship, have construed all amiss. (Jeremiah 8, 8)
In all their wisdom, how disappointed, how bewildered, how entrapped! God’s word they cast away, and wisdom left them. (Jeremiah 8, 9)
Shamed they needs must be, that did so detestably; shamed, but never ashamed, for indeed they have lost the power to blush; theirs to fall in the common ruin, crushed to earth, the Lord says, when I call all to account).✻ (Jeremiah 8, 12)
I will make an end of them once for all, the Lord says; never a grape on the vine, or a fig on the fig-tree, every leaf withered; and I have given them … what has passed them by.✻ (Jeremiah 8, 13)
Why do we linger here? Muster we, and man the stronghold, and wait there uncomplaining; silence the Lord our God has imposed on us, given us a draught to dull the senses; the Lord, whom our sins have offended.✻ (Jeremiah 8, 14)
With such a brood of deadly serpents I am plaguing you, the Lord says, charm is none shall rid you of its bite. (Jeremiah 8, 17)
So cries my own people in its distress from a country far away. Does the Lord dwell in Sion no longer? Is she forsaken by her king?And she? What of the idols, what of the alien gods that turned me into her enemy? (Jeremiah 8, 19)
Deceitful tongues, treacherous as the hidden archer’s bow, hearts that lord it over their fellow-countrymen, wrong leading to wrong, and my claims forgotten! the Lord says. (Jeremiah 9, 3)
In what a nest of treason thou dwellest! And such treason, the Lord says, as will acknowledge no claim of mine. (Jeremiah 9, 6)
This warning, then, he utters, the Lord of hosts: The fire for them! They must be tried in the crucible; what other choice has my faithless people left me? (Jeremiah 9, 7)
Tongues that wound like an arrow, with deceit for poison, ever the smooth word of friend laying snare for friend; (Jeremiah 9, 8)
