“I listened and heard, but they didn’t say what is right.No one repents of his wickedness, saying, “What have I done?”Everyone turns to his course,as a horse that rushes headlong in the battle.”
Jeremiah 8:6 (WEB)
Context Reading
4“Moreover you shall tell them, ‘Yahweh says:“‘Do men fall, and not rise up again?Does one turn away, and not return? 5Why then have the people of Jerusalem fallen back by a perpetual backsliding?They cling to deceit.They refuse to return. 6I listened and heard, but they didn’t say what is right.No one repents of his wickedness, saying, “What have I done?”Everyone turns to his course,as a horse that rushes headlong in the battle. 7Yes, the stork in the sky knows her appointed times.The turtledove, the swallow, and the crane observe the time of their coming;but my people don’t know Yahweh’s law. 8“‘How do you say, “We are wise, and Yahweh’s law is with us”?But, behold, the false pen of the scribes has made that a lie.