“How can you say?
‘We are wise.
The law of Yahweh is with us.’
When,
In fact,
The false pen of the scribes
Has made it into a lie.
The wise
Shall be put to shame.
They shall be dismayed.
They shall be taken.
They have rejected
The word of Yahweh.
What wisdom is in them?”
Jeremiah complaints against the false written interpretations of the law by the scribes. They proclaim that they are the wise ones because they understand the law of Yahweh. However, they have turned it into a lie with their false writings. They will be dismayed and put to shame. They cannot be wise if they have rejected the word of Yahweh.
Eugene Finnegan Bible Project 