Jeremiah 9
9Oh, that my head were a spring of water and my eyes a fountain of tears! I would weep day and night for the slain of my people.H5414H7218H4325H5869H4726H1832H1058H3119H3915H2491H1323H59712Oh, that I had in the desert a lodging place for travelers, so that I might leave my people and go away from them; for they are all adulterers, a crowd of unfaithful people.H5414H4057H4411H732H5800H5971H3212H5003H6116H8983"They make ready their tongue like a bow, to shoot lies; it is not by truth that they triumph in the land. They go from one sin to another; they do not acknowledge me," declares the LORD.H1869H3956H7198H8267H1396H530H776H3318H7451H7451H3045H5002H30684"Beware of your friends; do not trust your brothers. For every brother is a deceiver, and every friend a slanderer.H8104H376H7453H982H251H251H6117H6117H7453H1980H74005Friend deceives friend, and no one speaks the truth. They have taught their tongues to lie; they weary themselves with sinning.H2048H376H7453H1696H571H3925H3956H1696H8267H3811H57536You live in the midst of deception; in their deceit they refuse to acknowledge me," declares the LORD.H3427H8432H4820H4820H3985H3045H5002H30687Therefore this is what the LORD Almighty says: "See, I will refine and test them, for what else can I do because of the sin of my people?H559H3068H6635H6884H974H6213H6440H1323H59718Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks with deceit. With his mouth each speaks cordially to his neighbor, but in his heart he sets a trap for him.H3956H2671H7819H1696H4820H1696H7965H7453H6310H7130H7760H6969Should I not punish them for this?" declares the LORD. "Should I not avenge myself on such a nation as this?"H6485H5002H3068H5315H5358H147110I will weep and wail for the mountains and take up a lament concerning the desert pastures. They are desolate and untraveled, and the lowing of cattle is not heard. The birds of the air have fled and the animals are gone.H2022H5375H1065H5092H4999H4057H7015H3341H376H5674H8085H6963H4735H5775H8064H929H5074H198011"I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, a haunt of jackals; and I will lay waste the towns of Judah so no one can live there."H5414H3389H1530H4583H8577H5414H5892H3063H8077H342712What man is wise enough to understand this? Who has been instructed by the LORD and can explain it? Why has the land been ruined and laid waste like a desert that no one can cross?H2450H376H995H6310H3068H1696H5046H776H6H3341H4057H567413The LORD said, "It is because they have forsaken my law, which I set before them; they have not obeyed me or followed my law.H3068H559H5800H8451H5414H6440H8085H6963H198014Instead, they have followed the stubbornness of their hearts; they have followed the Baals, as their fathers taught them."H3212H310H8307H3820H310H1168H1H392515Therefore, this is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: "See, I will make this people eat bitter food and drink poisoned water.H559H3068H6635H430H3478H398H5971H3939H4325H7219H824816I will scatter them among nations that neither they nor their fathers have known, and I will pursue them with the sword until I have destroyed them."H6327H1471H1H3045H7971H2719H310H361517This is what the LORD Almighty says: "Consider now! Call for the wailing women to come; send for the most skillful of them.H559H3068H6635H995H7121H6969H935H7971H2450H93518Let them come quickly and wail over us till our eyes overflow with tears and water streams from our eyelids.H4116H5375H5092H5869H3381H1832H6079H5140H432519The sound of wailing is heard from Zion: 'How ruined we are! How great is our shame! We must leave our land because our houses are in ruins.'"H6963H5092H8085H6726H7703H3966H954H5800H776H4908H799320Now, O women, hear the word of the LORD; open your ears to the words of his mouth. Teach your daughters how to wail; teach one another a lament.H8085H1697H3068H802H241H3947H1697H6310H3925H1323H5092H802H7468H701521Death has climbed in through our windows and has entered our fortresses; it has cut off the children from the streets and the young men from the public squares.H4194H5927H2474H935H759H3772H5768H2351H970H733922Say, "This is what the LORD declares: "'The dead bodies of men will lie like refuse on the open field, like cut grain behind the reaper, with no one to gather them.'"H1696H5002H3068H5038H120H5307H1828H6440H7704H5995H310H7114H62223This is what the LORD says: "Let not the wise man boast of his wisdom or the strong man boast of his strength or the rich man boast of his riches,H559H3068H2450H1984H2451H1368H1984H1369H6223H1984H623924but let him who boasts boast about this: that he understands and knows me, that I am the LORD, who exercises kindness, justice and righteousness on earth, for in these I delight," declares the LORD.H1984H1984H7919H3045H3068H6213H2617H4941H6666H776H2654H5002H306825"The days are coming," declares the LORD, "when I will punish all who are circumcised only in the flesh--H3117H935H5002H3068H6485H4135H619026Egypt, Judah, Edom, Ammon, Moab and all who live in the desert in distant places. For all these nations are really uncircumcised, and even the whole house of Israel is uncircumcised in heart."H4714H3063H123H1121H5983H4124H7112H6285H3427H4057H1471H6189H1004H3478H6189H3820
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