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Text -- Jeremiah 8:1-12 (NET)
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8:1 The 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 .
8:2 They 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 .
8:3 However, 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 who rules over all .
Willful Disregard of God Will Lead to Destruction
8:4 The 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 ?
8:5 Why , 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.
8:6 I 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 .
8:7 Even 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.
8:8 How 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 .
8:9 Your wise men will be put to shame . They will be dumbfounded and be brought to judgment. Since they have rejected the word of the Lord , what wisdom do they really have?
8:10 So 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 .
8:11 They 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 !
8:12 Are 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 .
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NET Notes -> Jer 8:1; Jer 8:2; Jer 8:2; Jer 8:2; Jer 8:2; Jer 8:2; Jer 8:2; Jer 8:3; Jer 8:3; Jer 8:3; Jer 8:4; Jer 8:4; Jer 8:5; Jer 8:5; Jer 8:5; Jer 8:5; Jer 8:6; Jer 8:6; Jer 8:6; Jer 8:6; Jer 8:7; Jer 8:7; Jer 8:7; Jer 8:7; Jer 8:7; Jer 8:8; Jer 8:8; Jer 8:8; Jer 8:9; Jer 8:10; Jer 8:11; Jer 8:11; Jer 8:11; Jer 8:12
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NET Notes: Jer 8:4 There is a play on two different nuances of the same Hebrew word that means “turn” and “return,” “turn away” and &...
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NET Notes: Jer 8:5 There is a continuing play on the same root word used in the preceding verse. Here the words “turn away from me,” “apostasy,” ...
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NET Notes: Jer 8:6 The wordplay begun in v. 4 is continued here. The word translated “turns aside” in the literal translation and “wayward” in th...
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NET Notes: Jer 8:8 Heb “The lying pen of the scribes have made [it] into a lie.” The translation is an attempt to make the most common interpretation of this...
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NET Notes: Jer 8:9 Heb “be trapped.” However, the word “trapped” generally carries with it the connotation of divine judgment. See BDB 540 s.v. &...
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NET Notes: Jer 8:10 See Jer 6:12-15 for parallels to 8:10-12. The words of Jeremiah to the people may have been repeated on more than one occasion or have been found appr...
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