Jeremiah 8:5
“They have all abandoned him. There is no one who speaks well and does penance for his sins. They follow their own wills like a horse ready for battle. They bend their tongue as a bow. They invent everything, and there is no truth in them.”
Source: Septuagint
5Wherefore has this my people turned away with a shameless revolting, and strengthened themselves in their willfulness, and refused to return?
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3because they chose death rather than life, even to all the remnant that are left of that family, in every place whither I shall drive them out.
4For thus saith the Lord, Shall not he that falls arise? or he that turns away, shall he not turn back again?
— Jeremiah 8:5 —
6Hearken, I pray you, and hear: will they not speak thus, There is no man that repents of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? the runner has failed from his course, as a tired horse in his neighing.
7Yea, the stork in the heaven knows her time, also the turtledove and wild swallow; the sparrows observe the times of their coming in; but this my people knows not the judgments of the Lord.