Jeremiah 8:8

Tree of Life Version

How can you say, ‘We are wise! The Torah of Adonai is with us’? In fact, it is the lying pen of the scribes that have made it a lie.

Cross References

Job 11:12

But a witless man will gain understanding when a wild donkey’s colt is born a human being?

Job 12:20

He silences the lips of trusted advisors and removes the discernment of elders.

Psalm 147:19

He declares His word to Jacob, His decrees and His rulings to Israel.

Proverbs 17:6

Grandchildren are the crown of the elderly and the glory of children is their parents.

Isaiah 43:27

Your first father sinned, and your mediators rebelled against Me.

Jeremiah 18:18

Then they said: “Come, let us devise plans against Jeremiah. Surely Torah from the kohen will not be lost, nor will counsel from the wise, nor will the word from the prophet. Come, let’s strike at him with the tongue, and pay no attention to any of his words.”

Jeremiah 19:7

So I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place. I will have them fall by the sword before their enemies, by the hand of them that seek their life. I will give their carcasses as food for the birds of the sky and the beasts of the earth.

Jeremiah 2:8

The kohanim did not ask, ‘Where is Adonai?’ The Torah experts did not know Me. The shepherds rebelled against Me. The prophets prophesied by Baal and went after unprofitable things.

Jeremiah 4:22

“For My people are foolish. They do not know Me. They are senseless children, and they have no understanding. They are wise to do evil, but to do good they do not know.”

Jeremiah 48:14

How can you say: ‘We are warriors and men valiant for battle’?

Hosea 8:12

Though I were to write out for him ten thousand things from My Torah, they are regarded as something strange.

Matthew 15:6

he need not honor his father.’ On account of your tradition, you made void the word of God.

John 9:41

Yeshua said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no sin. But now you say, ‘We see.’ So your sin remains.”

Romans 1:22

Claiming to be wise, they became fools.