Jeremiah 8:8-10

New International Reader's Version

⁸ “ ‘ “How can you people say, ‘We are wise.
    We have the law of the Lord’?
Actually, the teachers of the law have told lies about it.
    Their pens have not written what is true.
⁹ Those who think they are wise will be put to shame.
    They will become terrified. They will be trapped.
They have not accepted my message.
    So what kind of wisdom do they have?
¹⁰ I will give their wives to other men.
    I will give their fields to new owners.
Everyone wants to get richer and richer.
    Everyone is greedy, from the least important to the most important.
Prophets and priests alike
    try to fool everyone they can.