Jeremiah 8:7
King James VersionSource notes
“Yea, 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.”
Context
4Moreover thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD; Shall they fall, and not arise? shall he turn away, and not return?
5Why is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
6I hearkened and heard, 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.
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.
8How do ye say, We wise, and the law of the LORD with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he the pen of the scribes in vain.
9The wise are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom in them?
10Therefore will I give their wives unto others, their fields to them that shall inherit 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.