Jeremiah 8 (NET)

Jeremiah 8:1¹The Lord says, “When that time comes, the bones of the kings of Judah and its leaders, the bones of the priests and prophets, and of all the other people who lived in Jerusalem will be dug up from their graves.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 6:51 Kgs 13:22 Chr 34:4-52 Kgs 23:162 Kgs 23:20Amos 2:1Ezek 37:1Jer 7:32-34

Jeremiah 8:2²They will be spread out and exposed to the sun, the moon, and the stars. These are things they adored and served, things to which they paid allegiance, from which they sought guidance and worshiped. The bones of these people will never be regathered and reburied. They will be like manure used to fertilize the ground.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 23:5Deut 4:19Acts 7:42Jer 9:22Zeph 1:52 Kgs 21:3Ezek 8:16Jer 16:4Jer 19:13Jer 22:19

Jeremiah 8:3³However, I will leave some of these wicked people alive and banish them to other places. But wherever these people who survive may go, they will wish they had died rather than lived,” says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rev 9:6Jer 29:14Jer 23:3Jer 23:8Deut 30:4Job 7:15-16Dan 9:7Deut 30:1Jonah 4:31 Kgs 19:4

Jeremiah 8:4⁴The Lord said to me, “Tell them, ‘The Lord says, Do people not get back up when they fall down? Do they not turn around when they go the wrong way?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 24:16Mic 7:8Hos 6:1Isa 55:7Jer 3:1Amos 5:2Ezek 18:23Hos 14:1Hos 7:101 Kgs 8:38

Jeremiah 8:5⁵Why, then, do these people of Jerusalem continually turn away from me in apostasy? They hold fast to their deception. They refuse to turn back to me.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 9:6Jer 5:3Zech 7:11Heb 12:25Hos 11:7John 5:402 Thess 2:9-12Isa 30:10Isa 44:20Jer 5:27

Jeremiah 8:6⁶I have listened to them very carefully, but they do not speak honestly. None of them regrets the evil he has done. None of them says, “I have done wrong!” All of them persist in their own wayward course like a horse charging recklessly into battle.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 14:2Ezek 18:282 Pet 3:9Isa 30:18Luke 15:17-19Jer 5:1Job 39:19-25Mal 3:16Mic 7:2Ezek 22:30

Jeremiah 8:7⁷Even the stork knows when it is time to move on. The turtledove, swallow, and crane recognize the normal times for their migration. But my people pay no attention to what I, the Lord, require of them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 1:3Jer 5:4-5Isa 5:12Prov 6:6-8Song 2:12

Jeremiah 8:8⁸How can you say, “We are wise! We have the law of the Lord ”? The truth is, those who teach it have used their writings to make it say what it does not really mean.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 10:1-2John 9:41Job 5:12-131 Cor 3:18-20Matt 15:6Rom 1:22Job 12:20Ps 147:19Hos 8:12Job 11:12

Jeremiah 8:9⁹Your wise men will be put to shame. They will be dumbfounded and be brought to judgment. Since they have rejected the Lord ’s message, what wisdom do they really have?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 119:98-100Jer 6:15Job 5:121 Cor 1:18-29Deut 4:6Ezek 7:26Isa 19:11Jer 6:19Ps 19:72 Tim 3:15

Jeremiah 8:10¹⁰So I will give their wives to other men and their fields to new owners. For from the least important to the most important of them, all of them are greedy for dishonest gain. Prophets and priests alike all practice deceit.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 6:12-13Ezek 33:31Amos 5:11Deut 28:30-32Ezek 22:27-28Isa 28:7Isa 56:10-12Jer 23:11-17Titus 1:11Zeph 1:13

Jeremiah 8:11¹¹They offer only superficial help for the hurt my dear people have suffered. They say, “Everything will be all right!” But everything is not all right.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 6:14Ezek 13:10-161 Kgs 22:131 Kgs 22:6Jer 14:14-15Jer 27:9-10Jer 28:3-9Lam 2:14Ezek 13:22Mic 2:11

Jeremiah 8:12¹²Are they ashamed because they have done such disgusting things? No, they are not at all ashamed! They do not even know how to blush. So they will die just like others have died. They will be brought to ruin when I punish them, says the Lord.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 3:3Deut 32:35Isa 3:9Jer 6:15Ps 52:7Ps 52:1Zeph 3:5Ezek 22:25-31Hos 4:5-6Hos 5:9

Jeremiah 8:13¹³I will take away their harvests, says the Lord. There will be no grapes on their vines. There will be no figs on their fig trees. Even the leaves on their trees will wither. The crops that I gave them will be taken away.’”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 21:19Joel 1:7Jer 17:8Ps 1:3-4Hag 2:17Deut 28:39-42Ezek 22:19-21Ezek 24:3-11Hab 3:17Hos 2:8-9

Jeremiah 8:14¹⁴The people say, “Why are we just sitting here? Let us gather together inside the fortified cities. Let us at least die there fighting, since the Lord our God has condemned us to die. He has condemned us to drink the poison waters of judgment because we have sinned against him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 23:15Jer 9:15Jer 35:11Lam 3:19Ps 69:212 Sam 20:6Deut 29:18Deut 32:32Matt 27:342 Kgs 7:3-4

Jeremiah 8:15¹⁵We hoped for good fortune, but nothing good has come of it. We hoped for a time of relief, but instead we experience terror.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 14:191 Thess 5:3Mic 1:12Jer 4:10Jer 8:11

Jeremiah 8:16¹⁶The snorting of the enemy’s horses is already being heard in the city of Dan. The sound of the neighing of their stallions causes the whole land to tremble with fear. They are coming to destroy the land and everything in it. They are coming to destroy the cities and everyone who lives in them.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 10:28Judg 18:29Judg 5:22Jer 4:15-161 Cor 10:26Hab 3:10Jer 10:25Jer 4:24Jer 47:3Jer 6:23

Jeremiah 8:17¹⁷The Lord says, “Yes indeed, I am sending an enemy against you that will be like poisonous snakes that cannot be charmed away. And they will inflict fatal wounds on you.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Eccl 10:11Deut 32:24Ps 58:4-5Isa 14:29Num 21:6Amos 5:19Amos 9:3Rev 9:19

Jeremiah 8:18¹⁸Then I said, “There is no cure for my grief! I am sick at heart!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 22:4Jer 6:24Lam 1:16-17Lam 5:17Dan 10:16-17Hab 3:16Jer 10:19-22Job 7:13-14

Jeremiah 8:19¹⁹I hear my dear people crying out throughout the length and breadth of the land. They are crying, ‘Is the Lord no longer in Zion? Is her divine King no longer there?’” The Lord answers, “Why then do they provoke me to anger with their images, with their worthless foreign idols?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 39:3Isa 13:5Rev 2:1Deut 32:16-21Isa 12:6Isa 33:22Isa 52:1Jer 14:19Jer 31:6Jer 4:16-17

Jeremiah 8:20²⁰They cry, ‘Harvest time has come and gone and the summer is over, and still we have not been delivered.’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 13:25Matt 25:1-12Prov 10:5Luke 19:44Heb 3:7-15

Jeremiah 8:21²¹My heart is crushed because my dear people are being crushed. I go about crying and grieving. I am overwhelmed with dismay.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 14:17Joel 2:6Nah 2:10Ps 137:3-6Song 1:5-6Jer 4:19Jer 9:1Luke 19:41Rom 9:1-3Jer 17:16

Jeremiah 8:22²²There is still medicinal ointment available in Gilead! There is still a physician there! Why then have my dear people not been restored to health?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 46:11Gen 37:25Jer 51:8Jer 30:12-17Luke 8:43Luke 5:31-32Gen 43:11Isa 1:5-6Matt 9:11-12