Jer 8
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At that time, says the Lord, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Juda,
and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets,
and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves;
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and they shall Lit. cool or refresh; See 2 Sa 17:19 spread them out to the sun, and the moon, and to all the stars, and to
all the host
of heaven, which they have loved, and which they have served, and after which they
have walked, and to which they have held, and which they have worshiped; they shall
not be mourned for, neither shall they be buried; but they shall be for an example
on the face of the earth,
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because they chose death rather than life, even to all the remnant that are left of
that family, in every place where I shall drive them out.
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For thus says the Lord, Gr. does not Shall not he who falls arise? or he who turns away, shall he not turn back again?
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Wherefore has this my people turned away with a shameless revolting, and strengthened
themselves in their willfulness, and refused to return?
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Hearken, I pray you, and hear: will they not speak thus, There is no man that repents
of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? the runner has failed from his course,
as a tired horse in his neighing.
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Yea, the stork in the heaven knows her time, also the turtle-dove and wild swallow;
the sparrows observe the times of their coming in; but this my people knows not the
judgements of the Lord.
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How will you say, We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us? In vain have the
scribes used a false pen.
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The wise men are ashamed, and alarmed, and taken; because they have rejected the word
of the Lord; what wisdom is there in them?
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Therefore will I give their wives to others, and their fields to new inheritors; and
they shall gather their fruits, says the Lord.
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There are no grapes on the vines, and there are no figs on the fig-trees, and the
leaves have fallen off.
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Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the strong cities,
and let us be cast out there: for God has cast us out, and made us drink water of
gall, because we have sinned before him.
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We assembled for peace, but there was no prosperity; for a time of healing, but behold
anxiety.
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We shall hear the neighing of his swift horses out of Dan: the whole land quaked at
the sound of the Gr. of the riding of his horses neighing of his horses; and he shall come, and devour the land and the fullness
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it; the city, and them that dwell in it.
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For, behold, I send forth against you deadly serpents, which cannot be charmed, and
they shall bite you
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mortally with the pain of your distressed heart.
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Behold, there is a sound of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land afar
off: Is not the Lord in Sion? is there not a king there? because they have provoked
me with their graven images, and with strange vanities.
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The summer is gone, the harvest is past, and we are not saved.
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For the breach of the daughter of my people I have been saddened: in my perplexity
pangs have seized upon me as of a woman in travail.
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And is there no balm in Galaad, or is there no physician there? why has not the healing
of the daughter of my people taken place?