Yeremia 8:7

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Bahkan burung ranggung di udara mengetahui musimnya, burung tekukur, burung layang-layang dan burung bangau berpegang pada waktu kembalinya, tetapi umat-Ku tidak mengetahui hukum TUHAN.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Bahkan burung ranggung di udara mengetahui musimnya, burung tekukur, burung layang-layang dan burung bangau berpegang pada waktu kembalinya, tetapi umat-Ku tidak mengetahui hukum TUHAN.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Jikalau burung laklak di udara sekalipun ia mengetahui masanya yang tertentu, maka burung tekukur dan burung jinjang dan burung layang-layangpun ingat akan ketika kedatangannya, hanya umat-Ku itu tiada mengetahui hukum Tuhan,

Contextual Overview

⁴ Thus shalt thou say vnto them also: Thus saith the Lorde, Do men fall so, that they arise not vp againe? or if Israel repent, wyll not God turne againe to them? ⁵ Wherefore then is this people of Hierusalem gone so farre backe, that they turne not againe? They are euer the longer the more obstinate, and wyll not be conuerted. ⁶ For I haue loked and considered, but there is no man that speaketh a good worde, there is no man that taketh repentaunce for his sinne, that wyll so muche say, what haue I done? but euerie man turneth to his owne course, like a fierce horse headlong to the battaile. ⁷ The Storke in the ayre knoweth his appointed tyme, the Turtle doue, the Swallowe and the Crane consider the tyme of their trauayle: but my people wyll not knowe the tyme of the punishment of the Lorde. ⁸ Howe dare ye say then, we are wyse, we haue the lawe of the Lorde among vs? Truely in vayne hath he prepared his penne, and vainely haue the writers written it. ⁹ Therefore shall the wyse be confounded, they shalbe afraide and taken: for lo, they haue cast out the worde of the Lorde, what wisdome can then be among them? ¹⁰ Wherfore I wyl geue their wiues vnto aliauntes, and their fields to destroyers: For from the lowest vnto the hyest they folowe filthy lucre, and from the prophete vnto the priest they deale all with lies. ¹¹ Neuerthelesse, they heale the hurt of my people very slenderly, saying, peace, peace: where there is no peace at all. ¹² Fye for shame, howe abhominable thinges do they? and yet they be not ashamed, yea they knowe of no shame: Wherefore in the tyme of their visitation they shal fal among the dead bodies, and be ouerthrowne, saith the Lorde.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

stork: Proverbs 6:6-8, Isaiah 1:3

turtle: Song of Solomon 2:12

people: Jeremiah 5:4, Isaiah 1:3, Isaiah 5:12

know: Jeremiah 5:4, Jeremiah 5:5

Reciprocal: Genesis 7:9 - General Numbers 22:23 - the ass turned Job 12:7 - But ask Job 39:13 - wings and feathers unto the Job 39:26 - stretch Psalms 32:9 - no Psalms 104:17 - as for Proverbs 1:17 - in vain Proverbs 13:23 - destroyed Isaiah 5:13 - because Isaiah 27:11 - for it is Isaiah 29:14 - for the wisdom Jeremiah 4:22 - For my Jeremiah 5:21 - O foolish Hosea 4:6 - My people Matthew 21:27 - We cannot tell Mark 11:33 - We Mark 12:24 - Do Luke 20:7 - that

Cross-References

Leviticus 11:15
And all Rauens after their kinde,

1 Kings 17:4
Thou shalt drinke of the ryuer, and I haue commaunded the rauens to feede thee there.

1 Kings 17:6
And the rauens brought him bread and fleshe in the morning, and likewyse bread and fleshe in the euening: and he drancke of the brooke.

Job 38:41
Who prouideth meate for the rauen, when his young ones crye vnto God, and flee about for lacke of meate?

Psalms 147:9
He geueth vnto cattell their foode: [euen] vnto Rauens which call for it.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times,.... Of going and returning; for this is a bird of passage, as Pliny d and other naturalists observe; which goes away as winter approaches, and returns when that is over. The temperature of the air, as to heat and cold, and the natural propensity of such birds of passage to breed their young, are thought to be the incentives to change their habitation; and wonderful thing it is in nature, that they should know the proper time of their passage, what places to go to, and how to steer their course thither; and, as the above naturalist observes, they go and come in the night:

and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow, observe the time of their coming: for these also are birds of passage; the turtle is absent in the winter, and its coming is a sign of spring, Song of Solomon 2:11, the crane, according to Aelianus e, goes away with the stork, and returns when winter is over; and the same is observable of the swallow; hence the common saying, one swallow does not make spring; so Horace f uses "hirundine prima" for the beginning of spring. Where these birds retire to is not known; some think the swallows fly into Egypt and Ethiopia; but Olaus Magnus g says they lurk in holes, and even under water, where they hang together, and are sometimes drawn out in clusters, and being brought to the fire, and thawed, will revive and fly about.

But my people know not the judgment of the Lord; meaning not the unsearchable judgments of God, or those providential dispensations of God which are a great deep, and are not clearly discerned and known by the best of men; but either his own judgments, which are inflicted upon wicked men as punishments for sin, which yet are not taken notice of, and duly attended to, as they should be; or rather the law of God, and his revealed word, which is the rule of judgment and justice, and a declaration of righteousness, showing what is just and good, and ought to be done, which they were willingly ignorant of; or else the final and future judgment of God after death, to which all men must come, and into which every thought, word, and work, will be brought, and which day wicked men put far from them; see Isaiah 1:3.

d Nat. Hist. l. 10. c. 23. e De Animal. l. 3. c. 23. f Ep. l. 1. Ep. 7. g De Ritu Gent. Septent. l. 19. c. 11.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Jeremiah appeals to the obedience which migratory birds render to the law of their natures. The “stork” arrives in Palestine about March 21, and after a six weeks’ halt departs for the north of Europe. It takes its flight by day, at a vast height in the air (“in the heaven”). The appearance of the “turtle-dove” is one of the pleasant signs of the approach of spring.

The crane and the swallow - Rather, “the swift and the crane.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 8:7. The stork in the heaven — The birds of passage know the times of their going and return, and punctually observe them; they obey the dictates of nature, but my people do not obey my law.