Jeremiah 8
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Jeremiah 8:8-9

8How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of Yhwh is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain.1

9The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of Yhwh; and what wisdom is in them?23

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Notes

  1. 1. Jeremiah 8:8 in vain made…: or, the false pen of the scribes worketh for falsehood. ↩
  2. 2. Jeremiah 8:9 The wise…: or, Have they been ashamed, etc. ↩
  3. 3. Jeremiah 8:9 what…: Heb. the wisdom of what thing. ↩

Commentaries on Jeremiah 8

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