1478 - Jeremiah 8 part 2

 Jeremiah Chapter 8 part 2


Are the wise teachers of Israel, so wise after all?


I will give their wives to others,

and their farms to strangers.


From the least, to the greatest,

their lives are ruled by greed.


Yes, even my prophets, and my priests …are like that.


They are all frauds.


They offer superficial treatments,

for my people’s mortal wound.


They give assurances of peace,

when there is no peace.


Are they ashamed of these disgusting actions?


Not at all—they don’t even know how to blush!


Therefore, they will lie among the slaughtered.


They will be brought down, when I punish them, says the Lord.


I will surely consume them.


There will be no more harvests, of figs and grapes.


Their fruit trees will all die.


Whatever I gave them …will soon be gone.


I, the Lord, have spoken!’


“Then the people will say,…


‘Why should we wait here to die?


Come, let’s go to the fortified towns… and die there.


For the Lord, our God, has decreed our destruction, …and He has given us a cup of poison to drink, because we sinned, against the Lord.


We hoped for peace, but no peace came.


We hoped for a time of healing, but found only terror.’


“The snorting, of the enemies’ warhorses, can be heard, all the way from the land of Dan, in the north!


The neighing, of their stallions, makes the whole land tremble.


They are coming to devour the land …and everything in it—cities and people alike.


I will send these enemy troops among you, like poisonous snakes, that you cannot charm.


They will bite you, and you will die.


I, the Lord, have spoken!”


My grief is beyond healing;

my heart is broken.


Listen to the weeping of my people; it can be heard …all across the land.


“Has the Lord abandoned Jerusalem?*” the people ask.


“Is her King no longer there?”


“Oh, why have they provoked my anger, with their carved idols, and their worthless foreign gods?” says the Lord.


“The harvest is finished, and the summer is gone,” the people cry,

“yet we are not saved!”


I hurt with the hurt of my people.


I mourn …and I am overcome, with grief.


Is there no medicine in Gilead?


Is there no physician there?


Why is there no healing, for the wounds of my people?  


The Holy Bible 

New Living Translation 


Jeremiah 8:10–22


Praise be to God! 


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