diff --git a/modules/lang/clojure/packages.el b/modules/lang/clojure/packages.el
index e048739df..18684f39d 100644
--- a/modules/lang/clojure/packages.el
+++ b/modules/lang/clojure/packages.el
@@ -1,9 +1,21 @@
 ;; -*- no-byte-compile: t; -*-
 ;;; lang/clojure/packages.el
 
-(package! clojure-mode :pin "e1dc7caee76d117a366f8b8b1c2da7e6400636a8")
-(package! cider :pin "d8fd5794c909e671641f534b1eb21db0e92138e9")
-(package! clj-refactor :pin "466822ff6f9da584f7cf72c868017b8840574dbd")
+;; HACK Fix #5577. Paredit is a cider dependency. We install paredit ourselves
+;;      to get it from emacsmirror, because the original upstream is a custom
+;;      git server with shallow clones disabled.
+(package! paredit
+  :recipe (:host github :repo "emacsmirror/paredit")
+  :pin "8330a41e8188fe18d3fa805bb9aa529f015318e8")
 
+;; HACK Forward declare these clj-refactor/cider deps so that their deps are
+;;      byte-compiled first.
+(package! parseclj :pin "fcebf650759929256ec9c4bb83b677240622be8a")
+(package! parseedn :pin "b00eb42a1c10f19ba0f6ff5f8cb9e3ac05285dbf")
+
+;;; Core packages
+(package! clojure-mode :pin "e1dc7caee76d117a366f8b8b1c2da7e6400636a8")
+(package! clj-refactor :pin "23743432c39be9b62630f3f6468ac36ebc12aaff")
+(package! cider :pin "2b8bde358063e782771f2f12bdf32374d68a7174")
 (when (featurep! :checkers syntax)
   (package! flycheck-clj-kondo :pin "a558bda44c4cb65b69fa53df233e8941ebd195c5"))