Jeremiah 8
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1At that time, saith 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:
Jeremiah 8:1
2And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.
Jeremiah 8:2
3And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places whither I have driven them, saith the LORD of hosts.
Jeremiah 8:3
4Moreover thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD; Shall they fall, and not arise? shall he turn away, and not return?
Jeremiah 8:4
5Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
Jeremiah 8:5
6I 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.
Jeremiah 8:6
7Yea, 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.
Jeremiah 8:7
8How 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.
Jeremiah 8:8
9The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them?
Jeremiah 8:9
10Therefore 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.
Jeremiah 8:10
11For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
Jeremiah 8:11
12Were 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 8:12
13I will surely consume them, saith the LORD: there shall be no grapes 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.
Jeremiah 8:13
14Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.
Jeremiah 8:14
15We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble!
Jeremiah 8:15
16The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan: the whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for they are come, and have devoured the land, and all that is in it; the city, and those that dwell therein.
Jeremiah 8:16
17For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah 8:17
18When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me.
Jeremiah 8:18
19Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a far country: Is not the LORD in Zion? is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with strange vanities?
Jeremiah 8:19
20The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.
Jeremiah 8:20
21For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.
Jeremiah 8:21
22Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?
Jeremiah 8:22
Chapter 8
Cross References
Jeremiah 8:1
Ezekiel 6:5And I will lay the dead carcases of the children of Israel before their idols; a...Ezekiel 37:1The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the LORD,...2 Chronicles 34:4And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that w...2 Kings 23:20And he slew all the priests of the high places that were there upon the altars,...1 Kings 13:2And he cried against the altar in the word of the LORD, and said, O altar, altar...
Jeremiah 8:2
2 Kings 23:5And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to...Jeremiah 9:22Speak, Thus saith the LORD, Even the carcases of men shall fall as dung upon the...Acts 7:42Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is writte...Deuteronomy 4:19And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and t...Jeremiah 22:19He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the ga...
Jeremiah 8:3
Revelation 9:6And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire...Jeremiah 29:14And I will be found of you, saith the LORD: and I will turn away your captivity,...Jeremiah 23:8But, The LORD liveth, which brought up and which led the seed of the house of Is...Jeremiah 23:3And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all countries whither I have dr...Job 7:15So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.
Jeremiah 8:4
Proverbs 24:16For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fa...Micah 7:8¶ Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit i...Hosea 6:1Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he...Jeremiah 3:1They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another ma...Isaiah 55:7Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let hi...
Jeremiah 8:5
Jeremiah 9:6Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know m...Jeremiah 5:3O LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they hav...Zechariah 7:11But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ear...Hosea 11:7And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the mo...Jeremiah 5:27As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they a...
Jeremiah 8:6
Psalms 14:2The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were...Ezekiel 18:28Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions that he hat...2 Peter 3:9The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but i...Luke 15:17And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father’s hav...Job 39:19Hast thou given the horse strength? hast thou clothed his neck with thunder?
Jeremiah 8:7
Isaiah 1:3The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib: but Israel doth not kno...Jeremiah 5:4Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they know not the...Proverbs 6:6¶ Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:Isaiah 5:12And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts:...Song of Solomon 2:12The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and t...
Jeremiah 8:8
Job 5:12He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform t...Isaiah 10:1Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which...John 9:41Jesus said unto them,If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, We...1 Corinthians 3:18Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this worl...Matthew 15:6And honour not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the...
Jeremiah 8:9
Job 5:12He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform t...Jeremiah 6:15Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all...Psalms 119:98Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they are...Deuteronomy 4:6Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in th...Isaiah 19:11¶ Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors of P...
Jeremiah 8:10
Jeremiah 6:12And their houses shall be turned unto others, with their fields and wives togeth...Ezekiel 33:31And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my peo...Isaiah 56:10His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cann...Deuteronomy 28:30Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou shalt build...Titus 1:11Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which th...
Jeremiah 8:11
Jeremiah 6:14They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Pe...Ezekiel 13:10¶ Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace; and there wa...Lamentations 2:14Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee: and they have not disco...Ezekiel 13:22Because with lies ye have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not m...1 Kings 22:6Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men,...
Jeremiah 8:12
Jeremiah 3:3Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain;...Psalms 52:7Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance...Isaiah 3:9¶ The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare thei...Jeremiah 6:15Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all...Psalms 52:1Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God enduret...
Cross References
Jeremiah 8:1
Ezekiel 6:5And I will lay the dead carcases of the children of Israel before their idols; a...Ezekiel 37:1The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the LORD,...2 Chronicles 34:4And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that w...2 Kings 23:20And he slew all the priests of the high places that were there upon the altars,...1 Kings 13:2And he cried against the altar in the word of the LORD, and said, O altar, altar...
Jeremiah 8:2
2 Kings 23:5And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to...Jeremiah 9:22Speak, Thus saith the LORD, Even the carcases of men shall fall as dung upon the...Acts 7:42Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is writte...Deuteronomy 4:19And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and t...Jeremiah 22:19He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the ga...
Jeremiah 8:3
Revelation 9:6And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire...Jeremiah 29:14And I will be found of you, saith the LORD: and I will turn away your captivity,...Jeremiah 23:8But, The LORD liveth, which brought up and which led the seed of the house of Is...Jeremiah 23:3And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all countries whither I have dr...Job 7:15So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.
Jeremiah 8:4
Proverbs 24:16For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fa...Micah 7:8¶ Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit i...Hosea 6:1Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he...Jeremiah 3:1They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another ma...Isaiah 55:7Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let hi...
Jeremiah 8:5
Jeremiah 9:6Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know m...Jeremiah 5:3O LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they hav...Zechariah 7:11But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ear...Hosea 11:7And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the mo...Jeremiah 5:27As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they a...
Jeremiah 8:6
Psalms 14:2The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were...Ezekiel 18:28Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions that he hat...2 Peter 3:9The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but i...Luke 15:17And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father’s hav...Job 39:19Hast thou given the horse strength? hast thou clothed his neck with thunder?
Jeremiah 8:7
Isaiah 1:3The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib: but Israel doth not kno...Jeremiah 5:4Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they know not the...Proverbs 6:6¶ Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:Isaiah 5:12And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts:...Song of Solomon 2:12The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and t...
Jeremiah 8:8
Job 5:12He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform t...Isaiah 10:1Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which...John 9:41Jesus said unto them,If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, We...1 Corinthians 3:18Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this worl...Matthew 15:6And honour not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the...
Jeremiah 8:9
Job 5:12He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform t...Jeremiah 6:15Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all...Psalms 119:98Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they are...Deuteronomy 4:6Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in th...Isaiah 19:11¶ Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors of P...
Jeremiah 8:10
Jeremiah 6:12And their houses shall be turned unto others, with their fields and wives togeth...Ezekiel 33:31And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my peo...Isaiah 56:10His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cann...Deuteronomy 28:30Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou shalt build...Titus 1:11Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which th...
Jeremiah 8:11
Jeremiah 6:14They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Pe...Ezekiel 13:10¶ Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace; and there wa...Lamentations 2:14Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee: and they have not disco...Ezekiel 13:22Because with lies ye have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not m...1 Kings 22:6Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men,...
Jeremiah 8:12
Jeremiah 3:3Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain;...Psalms 52:7Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance...Isaiah 3:9¶ The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare thei...Jeremiah 6:15Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all...Psalms 52:1Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God enduret...