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8.4 Moreover thou shalt say unto them: Thus saith the :


 * Do men fall, and not rise up again?
 * Doth one turn away, and not return?
 * Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back
 * By a perpetual backsliding?
 * They hold fast deceit,
 * They refuse to return.
 * I attended and listened,
 * But they spoke not aright;
 * No man repenteth him of his wickedness,
 * Saying: 'What have I done?'
 * Every one turneth away in his course,
 * As a horse that rusheth headlong in the battle.
 * Yea, the stork in the heaven
 * Knoweth her appointed times;
 * And the turtle and the swallow and the crane
 * Observe the time of their coming;
 * But My people know not
 * The ordinance of the.
 * How do ye say: 'We are wise,
 * And the Law of the is with us'?
 * Lo, certainly in vain hath wrought
 * The vain pen of the scribes.
 * The wise men are ashamed,
 * They are dismayed and taken;
 * Lo, they have rejected the word of the ;
 * And what wisdom is in them?


 * Therefore will I give their wives unto others,
 * And their fields to them that shall possess them;
 * For from the least even unto the greatest
 * Every one is greedy for gain,
 * From the prophet even unto the priest
 * Every one dealeth falsely.
 * And they have healed the hurt of the daughter of My people lightly,
 * Saying: 'Peace, peace', when there is no peace.
 * They shall be put to shame because they have committed abomination;
 * Yea, they are not at all ashamed,
 * Neither know they how to blush;
 * Therefore shall they fall among them that fall,
 * In the time of their visitation they shall stumble,
 * Saith the.


 * I will utterly consume them, saith the ;
 * There are no grapes on the vine,
 * Nor figs on the fig-tree,
 * And the leaf is faded;
 * And I gave them that which they transgress.
 * 'Why do we sit still?
 * Assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fortified cities,
 * And let us be cut off there;
 * For the our God hath cut us off,
 * And given us water of gall to drink,
 * Because we have sinned against the.
 * We looked for peace, but no good came;
 * And for a time of healing, and behold terror! '
 * The snorting of his horses is heard from Dan;
 * At the sound of the neighing of his strong ones
 * The whole land trembleth;
 * For they are come, and have devoured the land and all that is in it,
 * The city and those that dwell therein.