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Jeremiah 8:1-22 — Sin and Punishment

Jer.8.1-22

¹At that time, declares YHWH, they will bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, the bones of its officials, the bones of the priests, the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem from their graves. ²They will spread them out before the sun and the moon and all the host of heaven, which they loved, which they served, after which they walked, which they sought, and to which they bowed down. They will not be gathered or buried; they will become dung on the face of the ground. ³Death will be chosen rather than life by all the remnant that remains from this evil family, in all the places where I have driven them, declares YHWH of hosts. ⁴You shall say to them, Thus says YHWH: Do people fall and not rise again? If one turns away, will he not return? ⁵Why then has this people turned away—Jerusalem in perpetual backsliding? They hold fast to deceit; they refuse to return. ⁶I have listened and heard: they do not speak rightly. No one repents of his evil, saying, 'What have I done?' Every one of them turns to his own course, like a horse rushing headlong into battle. ⁷Even the stork in the heavens knows her appointed times, and the turtledove, the swift, and the crane keep the time of their coming; but my people do not know the ordinance of YHWH. ⁸How can you say, 'We are wise, and the law of YHWH is with us'? Surely, behold, the lying pen of the scribes has made it a lie. ⁹The wise will be put to shame; they will be dismayed and taken. Behold, they have rejected the word of YHWH, so what wisdom do they have? ¹⁰Therefore I will give their wives to others and their fields to those who will possess them; for from the least to the greatest, every one of them is greedy for gain; from prophet to priest, every one of them practices falsehood. ¹¹They have healed the brokenness of the daughter of my people lightly, saying, 'Peace, peace,' when there is no peace. ¹²Were they ashamed because they committed an abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed; they do not know how to blush. Therefore they will fall among those who fall; at the time of their punishment they will stumble, says YHWH. ¹³I will surely sweep them away , declares YHWH. There are no grapes on the vine and no figs on the fig tree, and the leaf has withered; what I gave them has passed away from them. ¹⁴Why are we sitting still? Gather yourselves, and let us go into the fortified cities and perish there, for YHWH our God has doomed us and given us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against YHWH. ¹⁵We hoped for peace, but no good came; for a time of healing, but behold, terror. ¹⁶From Dan the snorting of his horses is heard; at the sound of the neighing of his stallions the whole land quakes. They come and devour the land and all that fills it, the city and those who dwell in it. ¹⁷For behold, I am sending among you serpents, vipers that cannot be charmed, and they will bite you, declares YHWH. ¹⁸My joy is gone because of sorrow; my heart is sick within me. ¹⁹Listen—the cry of the daughter of my people from a distant land: 'Is YHWH not in Zion? Is her King not in her?' 'Why have they provoked me to anger with their carved images, with foreign idols of emptiness?' ²⁰The harvest has passed, the summer has ended, and we are not saved. ²¹For the brokenness of the daughter of my people I am broken ; I mourn; horror has seized me. ²²Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then has the healing of the daughter of my people not come?

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4/11/2026

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