Jeremiah 9:12 - Prayer Tents

9Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!H5414H7218H4325H5869H4726H1832H1058H3119H3915H2491H1323H5971 2Oh that I had in the desert a travelers' lodging place, that I might leave my people and go away from them! For they are all adulterers, a company of treacherous men.H5414H4057H4411H732H5800H5971H3212H5003H6116H898 3They bend their tongue like a bow; falsehood and not truth has grown strong in the land; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, declares the LORD.H1869H3956H7198H8267H1396H530H776H3318H7451H7451H3045H5002H3068 4Let everyone beware of his neighbor, and put no trust in any brother, for every brother is a deceiver, and every neighbor goes about as a slanderer.H8104H376H7453H982H251H251H6117H6117H7453H1980H7400 5Everyone deceives his neighbor, and no one speaks the truth; they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they weary themselves committing iniquity.H2048H376H7453H1696H571H3925H3956H1696H8267H3811H5753 6Heaping oppression upon oppression, and deceit upon deceit, they refuse to know me, declares the LORD.H3427H8432H4820H4820H3985H3045H5002H3068 7Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts: "Behold, I will refine them and test them, for what else can I do, because of my people?H559H3068H6635H6884H974H6213H6440H1323H5971 8Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks deceitfully; with his mouth each speaks peace to his neighbor, but in his heart he plans an ambush for him.H3956H2671H7819H1696H4820H1696H7965H7453H6310H7130H7760H696 9Shall I not punish them for these things? declares the LORD, and shall I not avenge myself on a nation such as this?H6485H5002H3068H5315H5358H1471 10"I will take up weeping and wailing for the mountains, and a lamentation for the pastures of the wilderness, because they are laid waste so that no one passes through, and the lowing of cattle is not heard; both the birds of the air and the beasts have fled and are gone.H2022H5375H1065H5092H4999H4057H7015H3341H376H5674H8085H6963H4735H5775H8064H929H5074H1980 11I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, a lair of jackals, and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant."H5414H3389H1530H4583H8577H5414H5892H3063H8077H3427 12Who is the man so wise that he can understand this? To whom has the mouth of the LORD spoken, that he may declare it? Why is the land ruined and laid waste like a wilderness, so that no one passes through?H2450H376H995H6310H3068H1696H5046H776H6H3341H4057H5674 13And the LORD says: "Because they have forsaken my law that I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice or walked in accord with it,H3068H559H5800H8451H5414H6440H8085H6963H1980 14but have stubbornly followed their own hearts and have gone after the Baals, as their fathers taught them.H3212H310H8307H3820H310H1168H1H3925 15Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will feed this people with bitter food, and give them poisonous water to drink.H559H3068H6635H430H3478H398H5971H3939H4325H7219H8248 16I will scatter them among the nations whom neither they nor their fathers have known, and I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them."H6327H1471H1H3045H7971H2719H310H3615 17Thus says the LORD of hosts: "Consider, and call for the mourning women to come; send for the skillful women to come;H559H3068H6635H995H7121H6969H935H7971H2450H935 18let them make haste and raise a wailing over us, that our eyes may run down with tears and our eyelids flow with water.H4116H5375H5092H5869H3381H1832H6079H5140H4325 19For a sound of wailing is heard from Zion: 'How we are ruined! We are utterly shamed, because we have left the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.'"H6963H5092H8085H6726H7703H3966H954H5800H776H4908H7993 20Hear, O women, the word of the LORD, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth; teach to your daughters a lament, and each to her neighbor a dirge.H8085H1697H3068H802H241H3947H1697H6310H3925H1323H5092H802H7468H7015 21For death has come up into our windows; it has entered our palaces, cutting off the children from the streets and the young men from the squares.H4194H5927H2474H935H759H3772H5768H2351H970H7339 22Speak, "Thus declares the LORD: 'The dead bodies of men shall fall like dung upon the open field, like sheaves after the reaper, and none shall gather them.'"H1696H5002H3068H5038H120H5307H1828H6440H7704H5995H310H7114H622 23Thus says the LORD: "Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, let not the mighty man boast in his might, let not the rich man boast in his riches,H559H3068H2450H1984H2451H1368H1984H1369H6223H1984H6239 24but let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the LORD who practices steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth. For in these things I delight, declares the LORD."H1984H1984H7919H3045H3068H6213H2617H4941H6666H776H2654H5002H3068 25"Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will punish all those who are circumcised merely in the flesh—H3117H935H5002H3068H6485H4135H6190 26Egypt, Judah, Edom, the sons of Ammon, Moab, and all who dwell in the desert who cut the corners of their hair, for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart."H4714H3063H123H1121H5983H4124H7112H6285H3427H4057H1471H6189H1004H3478H6189H3820