8:1  "At that time," declares the LORD, "they will bring out 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 the inhabitants of Jerusalem from their graves.

8:2  "They will spread them out to the sun, the moon and to all the host of heaven, which they have loved and which they have served, and which they have gone after and which they have sought, and which they have worshiped no one will gather or bury them; they will appear as dung on the face of the ground.

8:3  "And the remnant that remains of this evil family will choose death rather than life that remains of this evil family, that remains in all the places to which I have driven them," declares the LORD of hosts.

8:4   "You shall say to them, 'Thus says the LORD, "Do men fall and not get up again? Does one turn away and not repent?

8:5  "Why then has this people, Jerusalem, Turned away in continual apostasy? They hold fast to deceit, They refuse to return.

8:6  "I have listened and heard, They have spoken what we know as incorrect; No man repented of his wickedness, Saying, 'What have I done?' Everyone turned to his course, Like a horse charging into the battle.

8:7  "Even the stork in the sky Knows her seasons; And the turtledove and the swift and the thrush Observe the time of their migration; But My people do not know The ordinance of the LORD.

8:8  " How can you say, 'We consider ourselves wise, And the law of the LORD we have with us'? But behold, the lying pen of the scribes Has made it into a lie.

8:9  "The wise men find themselves put to shame, They feel dismayed and caught; Behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, And what kind of wisdom do they have?

8:10  "Therefore I will give their wives to others, Their fields to new owners; Because from the least even to the greatest Everyone has greed for gain; From the prophet even to the priest Everyone practices deceit.

8:11  "They heal the brokenness of the daughter of My people superficially, Saying, 'Peace, peace,' But there comes no peace.

8:12  "Did they feel ashamed because of the abomination they had done? They certainly did not feel ashamed, And they did not know how to blush; Therefore they shall fall among those who fall; At the time of their punishment people shall bring them down," Says the LORD.

8:13  "I will surely snatch them away," declares the LORD; "There will grow no grapes on the vine And no figs on the fig tree, And the leaf will wither; And what I have given them will pass away."'"

8:14  Why do we sit still? Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the fortified cities And let us perish there, Because the LORD our God has doomed us And given us poisoned water to drink, For we have sinned against the LORD.

8:15  We waited for peace, but no good came; For a time of healing, but behold, terror!

8:16  From Dan we heard the snorting of his horses; At the sound of the neighing of his stallions The whole land quakes; For they come and devour the land and its fullness, The city and its inhabitants.

8:17  "For behold, I send serpents against you, Adders, for which no one can charm, And they will bite you," declares the LORD.

8:18  My sorrow has gone beyond healing, My heart feels faint within me!

8:19  Behold, listen! The cry of the daughter of my people from a distant land: "Does not the LORD live in Zion? Do we not find her King not within her?" "Why have they provoked Me with their graven images, with foreign idols?"

8:20  "Harvest has passed, summer has ended, And we do not have salvation."

8:21  For the brokenness of the daughter of my people I feel broken; I mourn, dismay has taken hold of me.

8:22  Do we find no balm in Gilead? Do we find no physician there? Why then has not the health of the daughter of my people improved?