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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//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 GNT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></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="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">GNT</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 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">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><p class="par"><span class="v24_8_1"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.8.1" class="v24_8_1">1</span>“At that time the bones of the kings and of the officials of Judah, as well as the bones of the priests, of the prophets, and of the other people who lived in Jerusalem, will be taken out of their graves. </span><span class="v24_8_2"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.8.2" class="v24_8_2">2</span>Instead of being gathered and buried, their bones will be like manure lying on the ground. They will be spread out before the sun, the moon, and the stars, which these people have loved and served, and which they have consulted and worshiped. </span><span class="v24_8_3"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.8.3" class="v24_8_3">3</span>And the people of this evil nation who survive, who live in the places where I have scattered them, will prefer to die rather than to go on living. I, the <span class="nd">Lord</span> Almighty, have spoken.”</span></p><h3 class="s">Sin and Punishment</h3><p class="par"><span class="v24_8_4"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.8.4" class="v24_8_4">4</span>The <span class="nd">Lord</span> told me to say to his people, “When someone falls down, doesn't he get back up? If someone misses the road, doesn't he turn back? </span><span class="v24_8_5"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.8.5" class="v24_8_5">5</span>Why then, my people, do you turn away from me without ever turning back? You cling to your idols and refuse to return to me. </span><span class="v24_8_6"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.8.6" class="v24_8_6">6</span>I listened carefully, but you did not speak the truth. Not one of you has been sorry for your wickedness; not one of you has asked, ‘What have I done wrong?’ Each of you keep on going your own way, like a horse rushing into battle. </span><span class="v24_8_7"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.8.7" class="v24_8_7">7</span>Even storks know when it is time to return; doves, swallows, and thrushes know when it is time to migrate. But, my people, you do not know the laws by which I rule you. </span><span class="v24_8_8"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.8.8" class="v24_8_8">8</span>How can you say that you are wise and that you know my laws? Look, the laws have been changed by dishonest scribes. </span><span class="v24_8_9"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.8.9" class="v24_8_9">9</span>Your wise men are put to shame; they are confused and trapped. They have rejected my words; what wisdom do they have now? </span><span class="v24_8_10"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.8.10" class="v24_8_10">10</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Jer.8.10!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> So I will give their fields to new owners and their wives to other men. Everyone, great and small, tries to make money dishonestly. Even prophets and priests cheat the people. </span><span class="v24_8_11"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.8.11" class="v24_8_11">11</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Jer.8.11!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> They act as if my people's wounds were only scratches. ‘All is well,’ they say, when all is not well. </span><span class="v24_8_12"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.8.12" class="v24_8_12">12</span>My people, were you ashamed because you did these disgusting things? No, you were not ashamed at all; you don't even know how to blush! And so you will fall as others have fallen; when I punish you, that will be the end of you. I, the <span class="nd">Lord</span>, have spoken.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v24_8_13"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.8.13" class="v24_8_13">13</span>“I wanted to gather my people, as a farmer gathers a harvest; but they are like a vine with no grapes, like a fig tree with no figs; even the leaves have withered. Therefore, I have allowed outsiders to take over the land.”<a href="#fn" id="link_Jer.8.13!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="par"><span class="v24_8_14"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.8.14" class="v24_8_14">14</span>“Why are we sitting still?” God's people ask. “Come on, we will run to the fortified cities and die there. The <span class="nd">Lord</span> our God has condemned us to die; he has given us poison to drink, because we have sinned against him. </span><span class="v24_8_15"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.8.15" class="v24_8_15">15</span>We hoped for peace and a time of healing, but it was no use; terror came instead. </span><span class="v24_8_16"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.8.16" class="v24_8_16">16</span>Our enemies are already in the city of Dan; we hear the snorting of their horses. The whole land trembles when their horses neigh. Our enemies have come to destroy our land and everything in it, our city and all its people.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v24_8_17"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.8.17" class="v24_8_17">17</span>“Watch out!” the <span class="nd">Lord</span> says, “I am sending snakes among you, poisonous snakes that cannot be charmed, and they will bite you.”</span></p><h3 class="s">Jeremiah's Sorrow for His People</h3><p class="q1"><span class="v24_8_18"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.8.18" class="v24_8_18">18</span>My sorrow cannot be healed;<a href="#fn" id="link_Jer.8.18!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v24_8_18">I am sick at heart.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v24_8_19"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.8.19" class="v24_8_19">19</span>Listen! Throughout the land</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v24_8_19">I hear my people crying out,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v24_8_19">“Is the <span class="nd">Lord</span> no longer in Zion?</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v24_8_19">Is Zion's king no longer there?”</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v24_8_19">The <span class="nd">Lord</span>, their king, replies,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v24_8_19">“Why have you made me angry by worshiping your idols</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v24_8_19">and by bowing down to your useless foreign gods?”</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v24_8_20"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.8.20" class="v24_8_20">20</span>The people cry out,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v24_8_20">“The summer is gone, the harvest is over,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v24_8_20">but we have not been saved.”</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v24_8_21"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.8.21" class="v24_8_21">21</span>My heart has been crushed</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v24_8_21">because my people are crushed;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v24_8_21">I mourn; I am completely dismayed.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v24_8_22"><span class="reftext" id="Jer.8.22" class="v24_8_22">22</span>Is there no medicine in Gilead?<a href="#fn" id="link_Jer.8.22!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v24_8_22">Are there no doctors there?</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v24_8_22">Why, then, have my people not been healed?</span></p><a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">8.13: </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Therefore … land; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Hebrew unclear.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">8.18: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Probable text </char><char style="fq" closed="false">My sorrow … healed; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Hebrew unclear.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">8.22: </char><char style="fk" closed="false">Gilead: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">A region east of the Jordan, famous for plants that were used for medicinal purposes.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. 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