Jeremiah 8:8

8. The pen of the scribes is in vain The latter part of this verse should be translated, certainly the lying pen of the scribes hath made it a lie. The prophet would call them back from their boastfulness in the possession of the written law, and declares that the corruption is so universal that even this has become so overlaid with falsehood as to become a lie. In this he alludes to the office of scribes and priests, as expositors, standing between God’s law and the people, and “perverting the ways of God,” “making void his commandments.” That of which Christ complained had already begun in Jeremiah’s time.