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Jeremiah Chapter 8

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JEREMIAH

Jeremiah 8

1"At that time," says the Lord, "they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, 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;
Ezekiel 6:5, Ezekiel 6:5, Ezekiel 37:1, 2 Chronicles 34:4, 2 Chronicles 34:5
2and they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the army of the sky, which they have loved, and which they have served, and after which they have walked, and which they have sought, and which they have worshiped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried, they shall be for dung on the surface of the earth.
2 Kings 23:5, 2 Kings 23:5, Jeremiah 9:22, Acts 7:42, Deuteronomy 4:19
3Death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue that remain of this evil family, that remain in all the places where I have driven them," says the Lord of hosts.
Revelation 9:6, Revelation 9:6, Jeremiah 29:14, Jeremiah 29:14, Jeremiah 23:8
4"Moreover you shall tell them, 'Thus says the Lord: Shall men fall, and not rise up again? Shall one turn away, and not return?
Proverbs 24:16, Proverbs 24:16, Micah 7:8, Hosea 6:1, Micah 7:8
5Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? They hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
Jeremiah 9:6, Jeremiah 9:6, Jeremiah 5:3, Jeremiah 5:3, Zechariah 7:11
6I listened and heard, but they did not speak what is right: no man repents him of his wickedness, saying, "What have I done?" Everyone turns to his course, as a horse that rushes headlong in the battle.
Psalms 14:2, Psalms 14:2, Ezekiel 18:28, Ezekiel 18:28, 2 Peter 3:9
7Yes, the stork in the sky knows her appointed times; and the turtledove and the swallow and the crane observe the time of their coming; but my people do not know the Lord's law.
Isaiah 1:3, Isaiah 1:3, Jeremiah 5:4, Jeremiah 5:5, Jeremiah 5:4
8How can you say, "We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us?" But, behold, the false pen of the scribes has worked falsely.
Job 5:12, Job 5:13, Isaiah 10:1, Isaiah 10:2, Job 5:12
9The wise men are disappointed, they are dismayed and taken: behold, they have rejected the word of the Lord; and what kind of wisdom is in them?
Job 5:12, Jeremiah 6:15, Psalms 119:98, Psalms 119:100, Job 5:12
10Therefore will I give their wives to others, and their fields to those who shall possess them: for everyone from the least even to the greatest is given to covetousness; from the prophet even to the priest every one deals falsely.
Jeremiah 6:12, Jeremiah 6:13, Jeremiah 6:12, Jeremiah 6:13, Ezekiel 33:31
11They have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, "Peace, peace;" when there is no peace.
Jeremiah 6:14, Jeremiah 6:14, Ezekiel 13:10, Ezekiel 13:16, Ezekiel 13:10
12Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No! They were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among those who fall; in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, says the Lord.
Jeremiah 3:3, Jeremiah 3:3, Psalms 52:7, Isaiah 3:9, Jeremiah 6:15
13I will utterly consume them, says the Lord: no grapes shall be on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and the things that I have given them shall pass away from them.'"
Matthew 21:19, Matthew 21:19, Joel 1:7, Joel 1:7, Jeremiah 17:8
14"Why do we sit still? Assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fortified cities, and let us be silent there; for the Lord our God has put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the Lord.
Jeremiah 23:15, Jeremiah 23:15, Jeremiah 9:15, Jeremiah 9:15, Jeremiah 35:11
15We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and behold, dismay!
Jeremiah 14:19, Jeremiah 14:19, Jeremiah 4:10, 1 Thessalonians 5:3, Jeremiah 8:11
16The snorting of his horses is heard from Dan: at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones the whole land trembles; for they have come, and have devoured the land and all that is in it; the city and those who dwell therein.
Judges 5:22, Judges 18:29, Judges 5:22, Judges 18:29, 1 Corinthians 10:28
17For, behold, I will send serpents, adders, among you, which will not be charmed; and they shall bite you," says the Lord.
Ecclesiastes 10:11, Ecclesiastes 10:11, Deuteronomy 32:24, Psalms 58:4, Psalms 58:5
18"Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! My heart is faint within me.
Lamentations 5:17, Jeremiah 6:24, Lamentations 1:16, Lamentations 1:17, Isaiah 22:4
19Behold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land that is very far off: 'Isn't the Lord in Zion? Isn't her King in her?'" "Why have they provoked me to anger with their engraved images, and with foreign vanities?"
Isaiah 39:3, Isaiah 39:3, Isaiah 13:5, Isaiah 13:5, Joel 2:32
20"'The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.'
Luke 13:25, Matthew 25:1, Matthew 25:12, Proverbs 10:5, Luke 13:25
21For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt: I mourn; dismay has taken hold on me.
Jeremiah 14:17, Jeremiah 14:17, Nahum 2:10, Joel 2:6, Nahum 2:10
22Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then isn't the health of the daughter of my people recovered?
Genesis 37:25, Jeremiah 46:11, Genesis 37:25, Jeremiah 46:11, Jeremiah 51:8

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