Jeremiah 8:7-9

New International Reader's Version

⁷Storks know when to fly south.
So do doves, swifts and thrushes.
But my people do not know
what I require them to do.

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.
⁹Those 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?

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Jeremiah 8:7-9

New International Version

⁷Even 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.

⁸“‘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?
⁹The 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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Jeremiah 8:7-9

King James Version

⁷Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the Lord.

⁸How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain.

⁹The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the Lord; and what wisdom is in them?

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