Jeremiah 8

1“At that time,” says Yahweh, “they will bring the bones of the kings of Judah, the bones of his princes, the bones of the priests, the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves.Cross-references: 1Ki 13:2 · 2Ki 23:16 · 2Ki 23:20 · 2Chr 34:4 · Jer 7:32 · Ezek 6:5 · +2 more

2They will spread them before the sun, the moon, and all the army of the sky, which they have loved, which they have served, after which they have walked, which they have sought, and which they have worshiped. They will not be gathered or be buried. They will be like dung on the surface of the earth.Cross-references: Deut 4:19 · Deut 17:3 · 2Ki 9:36 · 2Ki 17:16 · 2Ki 21:3 · 2Ki 21:5 · +14 more

3Death will be chosen rather than life by all the residue that remain of this evil family, that remain in all the places where I have driven them,” says Yahweh of Armies.Cross-references: Deut 30:1 · Deut 30:4 · 1Ki 19:4 · Job 3:20 · Job 7:15 · Jer 20:14 · +10 more

4“Moreover you shall tell them, ‘Yahweh says: “‘Do men fall, and not rise up again? Does one turn away, and not return?Cross-references: 1Ki 8:38 · Prov 24:16 · Isa 44:22 · Isa 55:7 · Jer 3:1 · Jer 3:22 · +9 more

5Why then have the people of Jerusalem fallen back by a perpetual backsliding? They cling to deceit. They refuse to return.Cross-references: Prov 4:13 · Isa 1:20 · Isa 30:10 · Isa 44:20 · Jer 2:32 · Jer 3:11 · +12 more

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.Cross-references: Job 10:2 · Job 33:27 · Job 39:19 · Ps 14:2 · Isa 30:18 · Isa 59:16 · +11 more

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 Yahweh’s law.Cross-references: Prov 6:6 · Song 2:12 · Isa 1:3 · Isa 5:12 · Jer 5:4

8“‘How do you say, “We are wise, and Yahweh’s law is with us”? But, behold, the false pen of the scribes has made that a lie.Cross-references: Job 5:12 · Job 11:12 · Job 12:20 · Ps 147:19 · Prov 17:6 · Isa 10:1 · +6 more

9The wise men are disappointed. They are dismayed and trapped. Behold, they have rejected Yahweh’s word. What kind of wisdom is in them?Cross-references: Deut 4:6 · Job 5:12 · Ps 19:7 · Ps 119:98 · Isa 8:20 · Isa 19:11 · +6 more

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.Cross-references: Deut 28:30 · Isa 28:7 · Isa 56:10 · Jer 5:31 · Jer 6:12 · Jer 23:11 · +12 more

11They have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, “Peace, peace,” when there is no peace.Cross-references: 1Ki 22:6 · 1Ki 22:13 · Jer 6:14 · Jer 14:14 · Jer 27:9 · Jer 28:3 · +4 more

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 Yahweh.Cross-references: Deut 32:35 · Ps 52:1 · Ps 52:7 · Isa 3:9 · Isa 9:13 · Isa 24:2 · +7 more

13“‘I will utterly consume them, says Yahweh. No grapes will be on the vine, no figs on the fig tree, and the leaf will fade. The things that I have given them will pass away from them.’”Cross-references: Lev 26:20 · Deut 28:39 · Ps 1:3 · Isa 5:4 · Isa 5:10 · Isa 24:21 · +13 more

14“Why do we sit still? Assemble yourselves! Let’s enter into the fortified cities, and let’s be silent there; for Yahweh our God has put us to silence, and given us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against Yahweh.Cross-references: Lev 10:3 · Num 5:18 · Deut 29:18 · Deut 32:32 · 2Sam 20:6 · 2Ki 7:3 · +13 more

15We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and behold, dismay!Cross-references: Jer 4:10 · Jer 8:11 · Jer 14:19 · Mic 1:12 · 1Thess 5:3

16The snorting of his horses is heard from Dan. The whole land trembles at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for they have come, and have devoured the land and all that is in it, the city and those who dwell therein.”Cross-references: Judg 5:22 · Judg 18:29 · Judg 20:1 · Ps 24:1 · Jer 4:15 · Jer 4:24 · +8 more

17“For, behold, I will send serpents, adders among you, which will not be charmed; and they will bite you,” says Yahweh.Cross-references: Num 21:6 · Deut 32:24 · Ps 58:4 · Eccl 10:11 · Isa 14:29 · Amos 5:19 · +2 more

18Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! My heart is faint within me.Cross-references: Job 7:13 · Isa 22:4 · Jer 6:24 · Jer 10:19 · Lam 1:16 · Lam 5:17 · +2 more

19Behold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land that is very far off: “Isn’t Yahweh in Zion? Isn’t her King in her?” “Why have they provoked me to anger with their engraved images, and with foreign idols?”Cross-references: Deut 32:16 · Ps 135:21 · Ps 146:10 · Ps 149:2 · Isa 1:4 · Isa 12:6 · +14 more

20“The harvest is past. The summer has ended, and we are not saved.”Cross-references: Prov 10:5 · Matt 25:1 · Luke 13:25 · Luke 19:44 · Heb 3:7

21For the hurt of the daughter of my people, I am hurt. I mourn. Dismay has taken hold of me.Cross-references: Neh 2:3 · Ps 137:3 · Song 1:5 · Jer 4:19 · Jer 9:1 · Jer 14:17 · +5 more

22Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then isn’t the health of the daughter of my people recovered?Cross-references: Gen 37:25 · Gen 43:11 · Isa 1:5 · Jer 30:12 · Jer 46:11 · Jer 51:8 · +3 more