Jeremiah 8

Hola. Hoy, vamos a estudiar Jeremiah 8.

" 'When men fall down, do they not get up?
When a man turns away, does he not return?

When you fall from the Lord, do you realize it? Do you beg forgiveness for your sins? When you turn your attention from His Will and Word, do you not know it? And when you realize it, do you not turn back, get back to Him?
This is the charge to us as human Christians. Being human, we are born into sin, it is our nature. But as Christians, we can be forgiven from these sins. When we promise our life to the Lord, we don't promise to be perfect, we promise to try, and to realize when we've done wrong.

No one repents of his wickedness,
saying, "What have I done?"
Each pursues his own course
like a horse charging into battle.
⁷ Even the stork in the sky
knows her appointed seasons,
and the dove, the swift and the thrush
observe the time of their migration.
But my people do not know
the requirements of the LORD .

Here, the Lord laments the fact that no one asks for forgiveness. No one even realizes that they've strayed from the Lord. Even animals, who have almost zero intelligence beyond instict, know their path in life, why can't we?

⁸ " 'How can you say, "We are wise,
for we have the law of the LORD ,"
when actually the lying pen of the scribes
has handled it falsely?

This raises an interesting question: Are the people at faulrt, or the scribes?
Should the people know that they are disobeying God? Or should the scribes be blamed, because they are the leaders?
Of course, the people. Even animals know their path in life, and humans are no different. Each person should have known that they weren't following their path.