12 Were they ashamed when they acted so detestably?
They weren’t at all ashamed.
They can no longer feel humiliation.
Therefore, they will fall among the fallen.
When I punish them, they will collapse,”(A)
says the Lord.

13 “I will gather them and bring them to an end.”[a](B)
This is the Lord’s declaration.
“There will be no grapes on the vine,
no figs on the fig tree,
and even the leaf will wither.
Whatever I have given them will be lost to them.”

God’s People Unrepentant

14 Why are we just sitting here?
Gather together; let’s enter the fortified cities
and perish there,[b]
for the Lord our God has destroyed[c] us.
He has given us poisoned water to drink,(C)
because we have sinned against the Lord.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. 8:13 Lit Gathering I will end them
  2. 8:14 Or there be silenced
  3. 8:14 Or silenced

12 Are they ashamed of their detestable conduct?
    No, they have no shame(A) at all;
    they do not even know how to blush.
So they will fall among the fallen;
    they will be brought down when they are punished,(B)
says the Lord.(C)

13 “‘I will take away their harvest,
declares the Lord.
    There will be no grapes on the vine.(D)
There will be no figs(E) on the tree,
    and their leaves will wither.(F)
What I have given them
    will be taken(G) from them.[a]’”

14 Why are we sitting here?
    Gather together!
Let us flee to the fortified cities(H)
    and perish there!
For the Lord our God has doomed us to perish
    and given us poisoned water(I) to drink,
    because we have sinned(J) against him.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 8:13 The meaning of the Hebrew for this sentence is uncertain.