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Jeremiah 8 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:1 - At that time, saith the Lord, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Juda, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves;
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:2 - and they shall spread them out to the sun, and the moon, and to all the stars, and to all the host of heaven, which they have loved, and which they have served, and after which they have walked, and to which they have held, and which they have worshipped; they shall not be mourned for, neither shall they be buried; but they shall be for an example on the face of the earth,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:3 - because they chose death rather than life, even to all the remnant that are left of that family, in every place whither I shall drive them out.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:4 - For thus saith the Lord, Shall not he that falls arise? or he that turns away, shall he not turn back again?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:5 - Wherefore has this my people turned away with a shameless revolting, and strengthened themselves in their wilfulness, and refused to return?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:6 - Hearken, I pray you, and hear: will they not speak thus, There is no man that repents of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? the runner has failed from his course, as a tired horse in his neighing.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:7 - Yea, the stork in the heaven knows her time, also the turtle-dove and wild swallow; the sparrows observe the times of their coming in; but this my people knows not the judgments of the Lord.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:8 - How will ye say, We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us? In vain have the scribes used a false pen.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:9 - The wise men are ashamed, and alarmed, and taken; because they have rejected the word of the Lord; what wisdom is there in them?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:10 - Therefore will I give their wives to others, and their fields to new inheritors; and they shall gather their fruits, saith the Lord.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:13 - There are no grapes on the vines, and there are no figs on the fig-trees, and the leaves have fallen off.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:14 - Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the strong cities, and let us be cast out there: for God has cast us out, and made us drink water of gall, because we have sinned before him.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:15 - We assembled for peace, but there was no prosperity; for a time of healing, but behold anxiety.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:16 - We shall hear the neighing of his swift horses out of Dan: the whole land quaked at the sound of the neighing of his horses; and he shall come, and devour the land and the fulness of it; the city, and them that dwell in it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:17 - For, behold, I send forth against you deadly serpents, which cannot be charmed, and they shall bite you
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:18 - mortally with the pain of your distressed heart.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:19 - Behold, there is a sound of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land afar off: Is not the Lord in Sion? is there not a king there? because they have provoked me with their graven images, and with strange vanities.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:20 - The summer is gone, the harvest is past, and we are not saved.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:21 - For the breach of the daughter of my people I have been saddened: in my perplexity pangs have seized upon me as of a woman in travail.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:22 - And is there no balm in Galaad, or is there no physician there? why has not the healing of the daughter of my people taken place?
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Translation of the Greek Septuagint into English by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, originally published in 1851 and is now in the Public Domain

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