Jeremiah 8

At that time, says the Lord, they shall bring out from their graves the bones of the kings of Iouda and the bones of his rulers and the bones of the priests and the bones of the prophets and the bones of the inhabitants of Ierousalem.

And they shall spread them out to dry before the sun and the moon and before all the stars and before all the host of heaven, which they loved and which they served and after which they walked and to which they clung and which they worshiped. They shall not be mourned nor buried, but shall become an example on the face of the earth.

For they chose death rather than life, and so it is for all the remnant who are left of that generation, in every place where I may drive them out.

For thus says the Lord: Does one who falls not rise again? Or does one who turns away not return?

Why has this my people turned away with a shameless turning away? And they were held fast in their own choosing, and they refused to return.

Give ear now and listen. Will they not speak thus? There is no one repenting of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? The runner has left off from his course, like a sweating horse in his neighing.

And the asida in the sky knew her season; turtledove and swallow, sparrows of the field, kept the times of their coming; but my people did not know the judgments of the Lord.

How can you say, We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us? In vain has a false measuring line come to be for the scribes.

The wise were put to shame and terrified and captured, because they rejected the word of the Lord. What wisdom is in them?

Therefore I will give their wives to others and their fields to those who take possession.

And they shall gather their produce, says the Lord: there are no grapes on the vines, and there are no figs on the fig trees, and the leaves have fallen off.

Why are we sitting still? Gather together, and let us enter into the fortified cities, and let us be cast away there; for God has cast us away and given us water of gall to drink, because we sinned before him.

We gathered for peace, and there was no good; for a time of healing, and behold, alarm.

From Dan we shall hear the sound of the swiftness of his horses; at the sound of the neighing of the riding of his horses the whole earth quaked. And he shall come and devour the land and its fullness, the city and those who dwell in it.

For behold, I am sending out among you deadly serpents against which there is no charming, and they shall bite you,

incurably, with the pain of your heart in despair.

Behold, the sound of the cry of the daughter of my people from a distant land: Is the Lord not in Sion? Or is the king not there? Why did they provoke me to anger with their carved images and with foreign vanities?

Summer has gone by, harvest has passed, and we were not saved.

Over the breaking of the daughter of my people I was darkened; in perplexity pangs overpowered me, as of a woman in labor.

Is there no resin in Galaad? Or is there no physician there? Why has the healing of the daughter of my people not come up?

Who will give water to my head and to my eyes a fountain of tears? Then I would weep for this my people day and night, for the wounded of the daughter of my people.