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!H5414H7218H4325H5869H4726H1832H1058H3119H3915H2491H1323H59712O that I had in the desert A wayfarers' lodging place; That I might leave my people, And go from them! For all of them are adulterers, An assembly of treacherous men.H5414H4057H4411H732H5800H5971H3212H5003H6116H8983"And they bend their tongue [like] their bow; Lies and not truth prevail in the land; For they proceed from evil to evil, And they do not know Me," declares the LORD.H1869H3956H7198H8267H1396H530H776H3318H7451H7451H3045H5002H30684"Let everyone be on guard against his neighbor, And do not trust any brother; Because every brother deals craftily, And every neighbor goes about as a slanderer.H8104H376H7453H982H251H251H6117H6117H7453H1980H74005"And everyone deceives his neighbor, And does not speak the truth, They have taught their tongue to speak lies; They weary themselves committing iniquity.H2048H376H7453H1696H571H3925H3956H1696H8267H3811H57536"Your dwelling is in the midst of deceit; Through deceit they refuse to know Me," declares the LORD.H3427H8432H4820H4820H3985H3045H5002H30687Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, "Behold, I will refine them and assay them; For what [else] can I do, because of the daughter of My people?H559H3068H6635H6884H974H6213H6440H1323H59718"Their tongue is a deadly arrow; It speaks deceit; With his mouth one speaks peace to his neighbor, But inwardly he sets an ambush for him.H3956H2671H7819H1696H4820H1696H7965H7453H6310H7130H7760H6969"Shall I not punish them for these things?" declares the LORD. "On a nation such as this Shall I not avenge Myself?H6485H5002H3068H5315H5358H147110"For the mountains I will take up a weeping and wailing, And for the pastures of the wilderness a dirge, Because they are laid waste, so that no one passes through, And the lowing of the cattle is not heard; Both the birds of the sky and the beasts have fled; they are gone.H2022H5375H1065H5092H4999H4057H7015H3341H376H5674H8085H6963H4735H5775H8064H929H5074H198011"And I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, A haunt of jackals; And I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant."H5414H3389H1530H4583H8577H5414H5892H3063H8077H342712Who is the wise man that may understand this? And [who is] he to whom the mouth of the LORD has spoken, that he may declare it? Why is the land ruined, laid waste like a desert, so that no one passes through?H2450H376H995H6310H3068H1696H5046H776H6H3341H4057H567413And the LORD said, "Because they have forsaken My law which I set before them, and have not obeyed My voice nor walked according to it,H3068H559H5800H8451H5414H6440H8085H6963H198014but have walked after the stubbornness of their heart and after the Baals, as their fathers taught them, "H3212H310H8307H3820H310H1168H1H392515therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, "behold, I will feed them, this people, with wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink.H559H3068H6635H430H3478H398H5971H3939H4325H7219H824816"And I 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 annihilated them."H6327H1471H1H3045H7971H2719H310H361517Thus says the LORD of hosts, "Consider and call for the mourning women, that they may come; And send for the wailing women, that they may come!H559H3068H6635H995H7121H6969H935H7971H2450H93518"And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, That our eyes may shed tears, And our eyelids flow with water.H4116H5375H5092H5869H3381H1832H6079H5140H432519"For a voice of wailing is heard from Zion, 'How are we ruined! We are put to great shame, For we have left the land, Because they have cast down our dwellings.'"H6963H5092H8085H6726H7703H3966H954H5800H776H4908H799320Now hear the word of the LORD, O you women, And let your ear receive the word of His mouth; Teach your daughters wailing, And everyone her neighbor a dirge.H8085H1697H3068H802H241H3947H1697H6310H3925H1323H5092H802H7468H701521For death has come up through our windows; It has entered our palaces To cut off the children from the streets, The young men from the town squares.H4194H5927H2474H935H759H3772H5768H2351H970H733922Speak, "Thus declares the LORD, 'The corpses of men will fall like dung on the open field, And like the sheaf after the reaper, But no one will gather [them.]'"H1696H5002H3068H5038H120H5307H1828H6440H7704H5995H310H7114H62223Thus says the LORD, "Let not a wise man boast of his wisdom, and let not the mighty man boast of his might, let not a rich man boast of his riches;H559H3068H2450H1984H2451H1368H1984H1369H6223H1984H623924but let him who boasts boast of this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the LORD who exercises lovingkindness, justice, and righteousness on earth; for I delight in these things, "declares the LORD.H1984H1984H7919H3045H3068H6213H2617H4941H6666H776H2654H5002H306825"Behold, the days are coming," declares the LORD, "that I will punish all who are circumcised and yet uncircumcised—H3117H935H5002H3068H6485H4135H619026Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the sons of Ammon, and Moab, and all those inhabiting the desert who clip the hair on their temples; for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised of heart. 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