Jeremiah

⁶I listened and heard, but they didn’t say what is right.No one repents of his wickedness, saying, “What have I done?”Everyone turns to his course,as a horse that rushes headlong in the battle. ⁷Yes, the stork in the sky knows her appointed times.The turtledove, the swallow, and the crane observe the time of their coming;but my people don’t know the Lord’s law. ⁸“‘How do you say, “We are wise, and the Lord’s law is with us?”But, behold, the false pen of the scribes has worked falsely. ⁹The wise men are disappointed.They are dismayed and trapped.Behold, they have rejected the Lord’s word.What kind of wisdom is in them? ¹⁰Therefore I will give their wives to others,and their fields to those who will possess them.For everyone from the least even to the greatest is given to covetousness;from the prophet even to the priest everyone deals falsely. ¹¹They have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying,“Peace, peace,” when there is no peace. ¹²Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination?No, they were not at all ashamed.They couldn’t blush.Therefore they will fall among those who fall.In the time of their visitation they will be cast down, says the Lord.