Jeremiah 8:11-13

Contemporary English Version

^11 (A) All they ever offer
to my deeply wounded people
    are empty hopes for peace.
¹² They should be ashamed
of the way they live,
    but they don't even blush.
And so, when I punish Judah,
they will end up on the ground,
    dead like everyone else.
¹³ I will wipe them out.^[a]
They are vines without grapes;
    fig trees without figs or leaves.
They have not done a thing
    that I told them!^[b]
I, the Lord, have spoken.