Jeremiah 8:4-13 - Yahweh Questions His People
4 And say to them, Thus said Jehovah, Shall they fall and not rise? if he shall turn back, and not turn back? 5 Wherefore did this people of Jerusalem turn away a continual turning away? they laid hold upon deceit; they refused to turn back. 6 I hearkened and I will hear, they shall not speak thus: no man lamented for his evil, saying, What did I? Every one turned back in his race as the horse rushing into battle. 7 Also the stork in the heavens knew her appointment; and the turtle-dove, and the swallow, and the twitterer watched the time of their coming; and my people knew not the judgment of Jehovah.
8 How shall ye say, We are wise, and the law of Jehovah with us? Behold, surely for falsehood he made the style of the scribes a lie. 9 The wise were ashamed, they were confounded, and they will be taken: behold, they rejected in the word of Jehovah; and what wisdom to them? 10 For this I will give their wives to others; their fields to those inheriting them: for from small and even to great all plundering a plunder, from the prophet and even to the priest, all did falsehood. 11 And they will heal the breaking of the daughter of my people by making light of, saying, Peace, peace; and no peace. 12 Were they ashamed when they did abomination? also shaming they will not be ashamed, and they knew not to feel shame: for this they shall fall among the falling: in the time of their reviewing they shall faint, said Jehovah.
13 Destroying, I will destroy them, says Jehovah; no grapes upon the vine, and no figs upon the fig-tree, and the leaf fell away; and what I shall give to them shall pass by them.