Jeremiah 8

1 in/on/with time [the] he/she/it utterance LORD (to come out: send *Q(K)*) [obj] bone king Judah and [obj] bone ruler his and [obj] bone [the] priest and [obj] bone [the] prophet and [obj] bone to dwell Jerusalem from grave their

At that time, says Jehovah, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his rulers, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves.

2 and to spread them to/for sun and to/for moon and to/for all army [the] heaven which to love: lover them and which to serve: minister them and which to go: follow after them and which to seek them and which to bow to/for them not to gather and not to bury to/for dung upon face: surface [the] land: soil to be

And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, which they have loved, and which they have served, and after which they have walked, and which they have sought, and which they have worshiped. They shall not be gathered, nor be buried. They shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.

3 and to choose death from life to/for all [the] remnant [the] to remain from [the] family [the] bad: evil [the] this in/on/with all [the] place [the] to remain which to banish them there utterance LORD Hosts

And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue that remain of this evil family, that remain in all the places where I have driven them, says Jehovah of hosts.

4 and to say to(wards) them thus to say LORD to fall: fall and not to arise: rise if to return: turn back and not to return: return

Moreover thou shall say to them, Thus says Jehovah: Shall men fall, and not rise up again? Shall he turn away, and not return?

5 why? to return: turn back [the] people [the] this Jerusalem faithlessness to conduct to strengthen: hold in/on/with deceitfulness to refuse to/for to return: return

Why then has this people of Jerusalem slid back by a perpetual backsliding? They hold firm deceit. They refuse to return.

6 to listen and to hear: hear not right to speak: speak nothing man: anyone to be sorry: relent upon distress: evil his to/for to say what? to make: do all his to return: turn back (in/on/with running their *Q(K)*) like/as horse to overflow in/on/with battle

I hearkened and heard, but they did not speak aright. No man repents of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? Everyone turns to his course as a horse that rushes headlong in the battle.

7 also stork in/on/with heaven to know meeting: time appointed her and turtledove (and swallow *Q(K)*) and crane to keep: obey [obj] time to come (in): come they and people my not to know [obj] justice: judgement LORD

Yea, the stork in the heavens knows her appointed times, and the turtledove and the swallow and the crane observe the time of their coming, but my people know not the law of Jehovah.

8 how? to say wise we and instruction LORD with us surely behold to/for deception to make stylus deception secretary

How can ye say, We are wise, and the law of Jehovah is with us? But behold, the false pen of the scribes has wrought falsely.

9 be ashamed wise to to be dismayed and to capture behold in/on/with word LORD to reject and wisdom what? to/for them

The wise men are put to shame. They are dismayed and taken. Lo, they have rejected the word of Jehovah, and what manner of wisdom is in them?

10 to/for so to give: give [obj] woman: wife their to/for another land: country their to/for to possess: take for from small and till great: large all his to cut off: to gain unjust-gain from prophet and till priest all his to make: do deception

Therefore I will give their wives to others, and their fields to those who shall possess them. For everyone from the least even to the greatest is given to covetousness. From the prophet even to the priest everyone deals falsely.

11 and to heal [obj] breaking daughter people my upon to lighten to/for to say peace peace and nothing peace

And they have lightly healed the hurt of the daughter of my people, saying, Peace, peace, when there is no peace.

12 be ashamed for abomination to make also be ashamed not be ashamed and be humiliated not to know to/for so to fall: kill in/on/with to fall: kill in/on/with time punishment their to stumble to say LORD

Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed, nor could they blush. Therefore they shall fall among those who fall. In the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, says Jehovah.

13 to gather to cease them utterance LORD nothing grape in/on/with vine and nothing fig in/on/with fig and [the] leaf to wither and to give: give to/for them to pass them

I will utterly consume them, says Jehovah. There shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade, and things I have given them shall pass away from them.

14 upon what? we to dwell to gather and to come (in): come to(wards) city [the] fortification and to silence: destroyed there for LORD God our to silence: destroyed us and to water: drink us water poison for to sin to/for LORD

Why do we sit still? Assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fortified cities, and let us be silent there. For Jehovah our God has put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against Jehovah.

15 to await to/for peace and nothing good to/for time healing and behold terror

We looked for peace, but no good came, for a time of healing, and, behold, dismay!

16 from Dan to hear: hear snorting horse his from voice: sound neighing mighty: stallion his to shake all [the] land: country/planet and to come (in): come and to eat land: country/planet and fullness her city and to dwell in/on/with her

The snorting of his horses is heard from Dan. At the sound of the neighing of his strong ones the whole land trembles. For they have come, and have devoured the land and all that is in it, the city and those who dwell therein.

17 for look! I to send: depart in/on/with you serpent serpent which nothing to/for them charm and to bite [obj] you utterance LORD

For, behold, I will send serpents, adders, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, says Jehovah.

18 cheer my upon sorrow upon me heart my faint

Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! My heart is faint within me.

19 behold voice cry daughter people my from land: country/planet distance LORD nothing in/on/with Zion if: surely yes king her nothing in/on/with her why? to provoke me in/on/with idol their in/on/with vanity foreign

Behold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land that is very far off: Is not Jehovah in Zion? Is not her King in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with foreign vanities?

20 to pass harvest to end: finish summer and we not to save

The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.

21 upon breaking daughter people my to break be dark horror: appalled to strengthen: hold me

For the hurt of the daughter of my people I am hurt. I mourn. Dismay has taken hold on me.

22 balsam nothing in/on/with Gilead if: surely yes to heal nothing there for why? not to ascend: establish health daughter people my

Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then has not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?