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Even the birds in the sky
    know the right time to do things.
The storks, doves, swifts, and thrushes
    know when it is time to fly to a new home.
But my people don’t know
    what the Lord wants them to do.

“‘You keep saying, “We have the Lord’s teachings. So we are wise!”
    But this is not true, because the scribes have lied with their pens.
These “wise people” refused to listen to the Lord’s teachings.
    So they are not really wise at all.
These “wise people” were trapped.
    They became shocked and ashamed.

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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(A)
    the requirements of the Lord.

“‘How can you say, “We are wise,
    for we have the law(B) of the Lord,”
when actually the lying pen of the scribes
    has handled it falsely?
The wise(C) will be put to shame;
    they will be dismayed(D) and trapped.(E)
Since they have rejected the word(F) of the Lord,
    what kind of wisdom(G) do they have?

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