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## Jeremiah 8:8-9 in Context (Verses 5–12 KJV)
 
 [5 ](/kjv/jeremiah/8/5) Why *then* is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
 
 [6 ](/kjv/jeremiah/8/6) I hearkened and heard, *but* they spake not aright: no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to his course, as the horse rusheth into the battle.
 
 [7 ](/kjv/jeremiah/8/7) Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.
 
 [8 ](/kjv/jeremiah/8/8) How do ye say, We *are* wise, and the law of the LORD *is* with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he *it;* the pen of the scribes *is* in vain.*
 
 [9 ](/kjv/jeremiah/8/9) The wise *men* are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom *is* in them?**
 
 [10 ](/kjv/jeremiah/8/10) Therefore will I give their wives unto others, *and* their fields to them that shall inherit *them:* for every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness, from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.
 
 [11 ](/kjv/jeremiah/8/11) For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when *there is* no peace.
 
 [12 ](/kjv/jeremiah/8/12) Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.*
 
[Jeremiah 7](/kjv/jeremiah/7) [Jeremiah 9](/kjv/jeremiah/9)

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