Jeremiah 8:4-7
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Sin and Punishment
“Say to them, ‘This is what the Lord says:
“‘When men fall down, do they not get up?
When a man turns away, does he not return?
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Why then have these people turned away?
Why does Jerusalem always turn away?
They cling to deceit;
they refuse to return.
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I have listened attentively,
but they do not say what is right.
No one repents of his wickedness,
saying, “What have I done?”
Each pursues his own course
like a horse charging into battle.
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Even the stork in the sky
knows her appointed seasons,
and the dove, the swift and the thrush
observe the time of their migration.
But my people do not know
the requirements of the Lord.