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Jeremiah 8 :: Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:1 - At that time, an affirmation of Jehovah, They bring the bones of the kings of Judah, And the bones of its princes, And the bones of the priests, And the bones of the prophets, And the bones of inhabitants of Jerusalem, Out of their graves,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:2 - And have spread them to sun, and to moon, And to all the host of the heavens, that they have loved, And that they have served, And that they have walked after, And that they have sought, And to which they have bowed themselves, They are not gathered, nor buried, They are for dung on the face of the ground.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:3 - And chosen is death rather than life By all the remnant who are left of this evil family, In all the remaining places, whither I have driven them, An affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:4 - And thou hast said unto them: Thus said Jehovah, Do they fall, and not rise? Doth he turn back, and not return?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:5 - Wherefore hath this people of Jerusalem Turned back -- a perpetual backsliding? They have kept hold on deceit, They have refused to turn back.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:6 - I have given attention, yea, I hearken, They do not speak right, No man hath repented of his wickedness, Saying, What have I done? Every one hath turned to his courses, As a horse is rushing into battle.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:7 - Even a stork in the heavens hath known her seasons, And turtle, and swallow, and crane, Have watched the time of their coming, And -- My people have not known the judgment of Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:8 - How do ye say, We are wise, And the law of Jehovah is with us? Surely, lo, falsely it hath wrought, The false pen of scribes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:9 - Ashamed have been the wise, They have been affrighted, and are captured, Lo, against a word of Jehovah they kicked, And the wisdom of what -- have they?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:10 - Therefore, I give their wives to others, Their fields to dispossessors, For from the least even unto the greatest, Every one is gaining dishonest gain, From prophet even unto priest, every one is dealing falsely.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:11 - And they heal the breach of the daughter of my people slightly, Saying, Peace, peace! and there is no peace.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:12 - They were ashamed when they did abomination! Yea, they are not at all ashamed, And blushing they have not known, Therefore, they do fall among falling ones, In the time of their inspection they stumble, said Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:13 - I utterly consume them, an affirmation of Jehovah, There are no grapes in the vine, Yea, there are no figs in the fig-tree, And the leaf hath faded, And the strength they have passeth from them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:14 - Wherefore are we sitting still? Be gathered, and we go in to the fenced cities, And we are silent there, For Jehovah our God hath made us silent, Yea, He causeth us to drink water of gall, For we have sinned against Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:15 - Looking for peace -- and there is no good, For a time of healing, and lo, terror.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:16 - From Dan hath been heard the snorting of his horses, From the voice of the neighings of his mighty ones, Trembled hath all the land, And they come in and consume the land and its fulness, The city and the inhabitants in it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:17 - For, lo, I am sending among you serpents, Vipers that have no charmer, And they have bitten you, an affirmation of Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:18 - My refreshing for me is sorrow, For me my heart is sick.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:19 - Lo, the voice of a cry of the daughter of my people from a land afar off, Is Jehovah not in Zion? is her king not in her? Wherefore have they provoked Me with their graven images, With the vanities of a foreigner?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:20 - Harvest hath passed, summer hath ended, And we -- we have not been saved.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:21 - For a breach of the daughter of my people have I been broken, I have been black, astonishment hath seized me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:22 - Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? For wherefore hath not the health of the daughter of my people gone up?
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The Young's Literal Translation was translated by Robert Young, who believed in a strictly literal translation of God's word. This version of the Bible is in the public domain.

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Jeremiah Chapter 8 — Additional Translations:

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