The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

[Deade]

Jeremiah 8:3 (NKJV)

Then death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of those who remain of this evil family, who remain in all the places where I have driven them,” says the Lord of hosts.

 

[Deade]

Jeremiah 8:4 (NKJV)

“Moreover you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord: “Will they fall and not rise?
Will one turn away and not return?

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Jeremiah 8:5 (CSB)

Why have these people turned away? Why is Jerusalem always turning away? They take hold of deceit; they refuse to return.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Jeremiah 8:6 (CSB)

I have paid careful attention. They do not speak what is right. No one regrets his evil, asking, ‘What have I done?’
Everyone has stayed his course like a horse rushing into battle.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Jeremiah 8:7 (NASB)
“Even the stork in the sky Knows her seasons; And the turtledove, the swallow, and the crane Keep to the time of their migration; But My people do not know The judgment of the LORD.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Jeremiah 8:8 (NKJV)
“How can you say, ‘We are wise, And the law of the LORD is with us’? Look, the false pen of the scribe certainly works falsehood.

 

[Deade]

Jeremiah 8:9 (NKJV)

The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken. behold, they have rejected the word of the Lord; so what wisdom do they have?

 

[Deade]

Jeremiah 8:10 (NKJV)

Therefore I will give their wives to others, And their fields to those who will inherit them; because from the least even to the greatest Everyone is given to covetousness; from the prophet even to the priest everyone deals falsely.

 

[iTheophilus]

For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of My people slightly, Saying, 'Peace, peace!' When there is no peace.

- Jeremiah 8:11 (NKJV)

 

[iTheophilus]

Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No! They were not at all ashamed, Nor did they know how to blush. Therefore they shall fall among those who fall; In the time of their punishment They shall be cast down," says the LORD.

- Jeremiah 8:12 (NKJV)

 

[iTheophilus]

"I will surely consume them," says the LORD. "No grapes shall be on the vine, Nor figs on the fig tree, And the leaf shall fade; And the things I have given them shall pass away from them." ' "

- Jeremiah 8:13 (NKJV)

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Jeremiah 8:14 (CSB)


Why are we just sitting here? Gather together; let’s enter the fortified cities and perish there,
for the Lord our God has destroyed us. He has given us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against the Lord.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Jeremiah 8:15 (CSB)

We hoped for peace, but there was nothing good; for a time of healing, but there was only terror.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Jeremiah 8:16 (NKJV)
The snorting of His horses was heard from Dan. The whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of His strong ones; For they have come and devoured the land and all that is in it, The city and those who dwell in it.”

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Jeremiah 8:17 (CSB)

Indeed, I am about to send snakes among you, poisonous vipers that cannot be charmed. They will bite you.
This is the Lord’s declaration.

 

[iTheophilus]

I would comfort myself in sorrow; My heart is faint in me.

- Jeremiah 8:18 (NKJV)

 

[iTheophilus]

Listen! The voice, The cry of the daughter of my people From a far country: "Is not the LORD in Zion? Is not her King in her?" "Why have they provoked Me to anger With their carved images—With foreign idols?"

- Jeremiah 8:19 (NKJV)

 

[iTheophilus]

"The harvest is past, The summer is ended, And we are not saved!"

- Jeremiah 8:20 (NKJV)

 

[iTheophilus]

For the hurt of the daughter of my people I am hurt. I am mourning; Astonishment has taken hold of me.

- Jeremiah 8:21 (NKJV)

 

[Deade]

Jeremiah 8:22 (NKJV)

Is there no balm in Gilead, is there no physician there? Why then is there no recovery for the health of the daughter of my people?