Jeremiah 8:9
King James VersionSource notes
“The wise are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom in them?”
Context
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.
11For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when no peace.
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.