7. Even the stork in the skyknows its seasons;Turtledove, swift, and thrushobserve the time of their return,But my people do not knowthe order of the Lord.
8. How can you say, “We are wise,we have the law of the Lord”?See, that has been changed into falsehoodby the lying pen of the scribes!
9. The wise are put to shame,terrified, and trapped;Since they have rejected the word of the Lord,what sort of wisdom do they have?
10. Therefore, I will give their wives to other men,their fields to new owners.Small and great alike, all are greedy for gain,prophet and priest, all practice fraud.
11. They have treated lightlythe injury to the daughter of my people:“Peace, peace!” they say,though there is no peace.
12. They have acted shamefully; they have done abominable things,yet they are not at all ashamed,they do not know how to blush.Hence they shall be among those who fall;in their time of punishment they shall stumble,says the Lord.