Jeremiah 8:5-7

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

⁵ Why then has this people^[a] turned away
    in perpetual backsliding?
They have held fast to deceit,
    they have refused to return.
⁶ I have given heed and listened,
    but they do not speak honestly;
no one repents of wickedness,
    saying, ‘What have I done!’
All of them turn to their own course,
    like a horse plunging headlong into battle.
⁷ Even the stork in the heavens
    knows its times;
and the turtle-dove, swallow, and crane^[b]
    observe the time of their coming;
but my people do not know
    the ordinance of the Lord.