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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Jeremiah 8 BSB</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader.js'></script></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/jeremiah/8.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap//jeremiah/8-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">BSB</a> > Jeremiah 8</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/berean/menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../jeremiah/7.htm" title="Jeremiah 7">◄</a> Jeremiah 8 <a href="../jeremiah/9.htm" title="Jeremiah 9">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Berean Standard Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/bsb/heb/jeremiah/8.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Judah’s Sin and Punishment<p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/8-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>“At that time,” declares the LORD, “the bones of the kings of Judah, the bones of the officials, the bones of the priests, the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the people of Jerusalem will be removed from their graves. <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/8-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>They will be exposed to the sun and moon, and to all the host of heaven which they have loved, served, followed, consulted, and worshiped. Their bones will not be gathered up or buried, but will become like dung lying on the ground. <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/8-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And wherever I have banished them, the remnant of this evil family will choose death over life,” declares the LORD of Hosts. <A name="5"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/8-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>So you are to tell them this is what the LORD says: <p class="indent1stline">“Do men fall and not get up again? <p class="indent2"> Does one turn away and not return? <A name="6"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/8-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Why then have these people turned away? <p class="indent2"> Why does Jerusalem always turn away? <p class="indent1"> They cling to deceit; <p class="indent2"> they refuse to return. <A name="7"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/8-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>I have listened and heard; <p class="indent2"> they do not speak what is right. <p class="indent1"> No one repents of his wickedness, <p class="indent2"> asking, ‘What have I done?’ <p class="indent1"> Everyone has pursued his own course <p class="indent2"> like a horse charging into battle. <A name="8"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/8-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Even the stork in the sky <p class="indent2"> knows her appointed seasons. <p class="indent1"> The turtledove, the swift, and the thrush<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">a</a></span> <p class="indent2"> keep their time of migration, <p class="indent1"> but My people do not know <p class="indent2"> the requirements of the LORD. <A name="9"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/8-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>How can you say, ‘We are wise, <p class="indent2"> and the Law of the LORD is with us,’ <p class="indent1"> when in fact the lying pen of the scribes <p class="indent2"> has produced a deception? <A name="10"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/8-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>The wise will be put to shame; <p class="indent2"> they will be dismayed and trapped. <p class="indent1"> Since they have rejected the word of the LORD, <p class="indent2"> what wisdom do they really have? <A name="11"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/8-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Therefore I will give their wives to other men <p class="indent2"> and their fields to new owners. <p class="indent1"> For from the least of them to the greatest, <p class="indent2"> all are greedy for gain; <p class="indent1"> from prophet to priest, <p class="indent2"> all practice deceit. <A name="12"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/8-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>They dress the wound of the daughter of My people <p class="indent2"> with very little care, <p class="indent1"> saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ <p class="indent2"> when there is no peace at all. <A name="13"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/8-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Are they ashamed of the abomination they have committed? <p class="indent2"> No, they have no shame at all; <p class="indent2"> they do not even know how to blush. <p class="indent1">So they will fall among the fallen; <p class="indent2"> when I punish them, they will collapse, <p class="indent2"> says the LORD. <A name="14"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/8-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>I will take away their harvest, <p class="indent2"> declares the LORD. <p class="indent1"> There will be no grapes on the vine, <p class="indent2"> nor figs on the tree, <p class="indent1"> and even the leaf will wither. <p class="indent2"> Whatever I have given them will be lost to them.” <A name="15"></a><p class="hdg">The People Respond<p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/8-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Why are we just sitting here? <p class="indent2"> Gather together, <p class="indent1"> let us flee to the fortified cities and perish there, <p class="indent2"> for the LORD our God has doomed us. <p class="indent1"> He has given us poisoned water to drink, <p class="indent2"> because we have sinned against the LORD. <A name="16"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/8-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>We hoped for peace, <p class="indent2"> but no good has come, <p class="indent1"> for a time of healing, <p class="indent2"> but there was only terror. <A name="17"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/8-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>The snorting of enemy horses <p class="indent2"> is heard from Dan. <p class="indent1"> At the sound of the neighing of mighty steeds, <p class="indent2"> the whole land quakes. <p class="indent1"> They come to devour the land and everything in it, <p class="indent2"> the city and all who dwell in it. <A name="18"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/8-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>“For behold, I will send snakes among you, <p class="indent2"> vipers that cannot be charmed, <p class="indent2"> and they will bite you,” <p class="selah"> declares the LORD. <A name="19"></a><p class="hdg">Jeremiah Weeps for His People<p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/8-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>My sorrow is beyond healing;<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">b</a></span> <p class="indent2"> my heart is faint within me. <A name="20"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/8-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Listen to the cry of the daughter of my people <p class="indent2"> from a land far away: <p class="indent1stline">“Is the LORD no longer in Zion? <p class="indent2"> Is her King no longer there?” <p class="indent1stline">“Why have they provoked Me to anger <p class="indent2"> with their carved images, <p class="indent2"> with their worthless foreign idols?” <A name="21"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/8-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>“The harvest has passed, the summer has ended, <p class="indent2"> but we have not been saved.” <A name="22"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/8-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>For the brokenness of the daughter of my people I am crushed. <p class="indent2"> I mourn; horror has gripped me. <p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/8-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Is there no balm in Gilead? <p class="indent2"> Is no physician there? <p class="indent1"> Why then has the health of the daughter of my people <p class="indent2"> not been restored?</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">7</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> The precise identification of some of these birds is uncertain.<br><span class="fnverse">18</span> <span class="footnotesbot">b</span> Or <i>O my Comforter in sorrow,</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><br /></div><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible, Berean Standard Bible, BSB is produced in cooperation with Bible Hub, Discovery Bible, OpenBible.com, and the Berean Bible Translation Committee. 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