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,” A declaration of YHWH, “They bring the bones of the kings of Judah, And the bones of its princes, And the bones of the priests, And the bones of the prophets, And the bones of 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 have spread them to sun, and to moon, And to all the host of the heavens, that they have loved, And that they have served, And that they have walked after, And that they have sought, And to which they have bowed themselves, They are not gathered, nor buried, They are for dung on the face of the ground.

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 is chosen rather than life By all the remnant who are left of this evil family, In all the remaining places, to where I have driven them,” A declaration of YHWH 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

“And you have said to them, Thus said YHWH: Do they fall, and not rise? Does he turn back, 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 has this people of Jerusalem Turned back—a continuous backsliding? They have kept hold on deceit, They have refused to turn back.

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 have given attention, indeed, I listen, They do not speak right, No man has sighed over his wickedness, Saying, What have I done? Everyone has turned to his courses, As a horse is rushing into 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

Even a stork in the heavens has known her seasons, And turtle, and swallow, and crane, Have watched the time of their coming, And—My people have not known the judgment of YHWH.

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

How do you say, We [are] wise, And the Law of YHWH [is] with us? Surely, behold, it has worked falsely, The false pen of scribes.

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 have been ashamed, They have been frightened, and are captured, Behold, they kicked against a word of YHWH, And what wisdom do they have?

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 give their wives to others, Their fields to dispossessors, For from the least even to the greatest, Everyone is gaining dishonest gain, From prophet even to priest, everyone is dealing falsely.

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

And they heal the breach of the daughter of My people slightly, Saying, Peace, peace! And 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

They were ashamed when they did abomination! Indeed, they are not ashamed at all, And they have not known blushing, Therefore, they fall among falling ones, They stumble in the time of their inspection, said YHWH.

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 utterly consume them,” A declaration of YHWH, “There are no grapes in the vine, Indeed, there are no figs in the fig tree, And the leaf has faded, And the strength they have passes 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 are we sitting still? Be gathered, and we go into the fortified cities, And we are silent there, For our God YHWH has made us silent, Indeed, He causes us to drink water of gall, For we have sinned against YHWH.

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

Looking for peace—and there is no good, For a time of healing, and behold—terror.

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 has been heard from Dan, From the voice of the neighings of his mighty ones, All the land has trembled, And they come in and consume the land and its fullness, The city and the inhabitants in it.

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 am sending serpents among you, Vipers that have no charmer, And they have bitten you,” A declaration of YHWH.

18 cheer my upon sorrow upon me heart my faint

My sorrow [is] beyond comfort, My heart [is] sick in 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 a cry of the daughter of my people from a far-off land, Is YHWH not in Zion? Is her King not in her? “Why have they provoked Me with their carved images, With the vanities of a foreigner?”

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

Harvest has passed, summer has ended, And we have not been saved.

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

For a breach of the daughter of my people I have been broken, I have been dark, Astonishment has seized 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 has the health of the daughter of my people not gone up?