Jeremiah 8:7

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Storks, doves, swallows, and thrushes all know when it's time to fly away for the winter and when to come back. But you, my people, don't know what I demand.

Cross References

Song of Solomon 2:12

flowers cover the earth, it's time to sing. The cooing of doves is heard in our land.

Isaiah 1:3

Oxen and donkeys know who owns and feeds them, but my people won't ever learn.”

Isaiah 27:11

When broken branches fall to the ground, women pick them up to feed the fire. But these people are so stupid that the God who created them will show them no mercy.

Isaiah 5:12

At your drinking parties you have the music of stringed instruments, tambourines, and flutes. But you never even think about all the LORD has done,

Jeremiah 4:22

I heard the LORD say, “My people ignore me. They are foolish children who do not understand that they will be punished. All they know is how to sin.”

Jeremiah 5:6

The people have rebelled and rejected the LORD too many times. So enemies will attack like lions from the forest or wolves from the desert. Those enemies will watch the towns of Judah, and like leopards they will tear to pieces whoever goes outside.

Habakkuk 1:4

Laws cannot be enforced; justice is always the loser; criminals crowd out honest people and twist the laws around.

Zechariah 5:9

Straight after this I saw two women coming through the sky like storks with wings outstretched in the wind. Suddenly they lifted the basket into the air,