Jeremiah 8:8
How on earth can you say, “We're wise, and we have the Law of the Lord?” Can't you see that the writings of your teachers of the Law have turned it into lies?
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Job 11:12Stupid people will become wise when wild donkeys are born tame!
Psalms 147:19He proclaims his word to Jacob; his rules and laws to Israel.
Isaiah 10:1Tragedy is coming to those who pass evil decrees and who write laws to harm people.
Jeremiah 2:8Your priests did not ask, “Where is the Lord?” Your teachers of the law no longer believed in me, and your leaders rebelled against me. Your prophets prophesied by calling on Baal and followed worthless idols.
Hosea 8:12I wrote down for them the many aspects of my law, but they looked on them as foreign.
John 9:41Jesus answered, “If you were blind, you wouldn't be guilty. But now that you say you see, your guilt remains.”
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 8:5-13
Full of Impenitent Sinners; Hardened Wickedness of Judah. ( b. c. 606.) 4 Moreover thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord ; Shall they fall, and not arise? shall he turn away, and not return? 5 Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return. 6 I hearkened and heard, but 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. 7 Yea,… Read the whole commentary →