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Jeremiah 9
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9If my head were water, my eyes a fountain of tears, I would weep day and night over the slain of my dear people.H5414H7218H4325H5869H4726H1832H1058H3119H3915H2491H1323H5971
2If only I had a traveler's lodging place in the wilderness, I would abandon my people and depart from them, for they are all adulterers, a solemn assembly of treacherous people.H5414H4057H4411H732H5800H5971H3212H5003H6116H898
3They bent their tongues [like] their bows; lies and not faithfulness prevail in the land, for they proceed from one evil to another, and they do not take Me into account. [This is] the LORD's declaration.H1869H3956H7198H8267H1396H530H776H3318H7451H7451H3045H5002H3068

Imminent Ruin and Exile

4Everyone has to be on guard against his friend. Don't trust any brother, for every brother will certainly deceive, and every friend spread slander.H8104H376H7453H982H251H251H6117H6117H7453H1980H7400
5Each one betrays his friend; no one tells the truth. They have taught their tongues to speak lies; they wear themselves out doing wrong.H2048H376H7453H1696H571H3925H3956H1696H8267H3811H5753
6You live in [a world] of deception. In [their] deception they refuse to know Me. [This is] the LORD's declaration.H3427H8432H4820H4820H3985H3045H5002H3068
7Therefore, this is what the LORD of Hosts says: I am about to refine them and test them, for what else can I do because of My dear people?H559H3068H6635H6884H974H6213H6440H1323H5971
8Their tongues are deadly arrows— they speak deception. With his mouth a man speaks peaceably with his friend, but inwardly he sets up an ambush.H3956H2671H7819H1696H4820H1696H7965H7453H6310H7130H7760H696
9Should I not punish them for these things? [This is] the LORD's declaration. Should I not take My revenge against a nation such as this?H6485H5002H3068H5315H5358H1471
10I will raise weeping and a lament over the mountains, a dirge over the wilderness grazing land, for they have been so scorched that no one passes through. The sound of cattle is no longer heard. From the birds of the sky to the animals, [everything] has fled— they have gone away.H2022H5375H1065H5092H4999H4057H7015H3341H376H5674H8085H6963H4735H5775H8064H929H5074H1980
11I will make Jerusalem a heap of rubble, a jackals' den. I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, an uninhabited place.H5414H3389H1530H4583H8577H5414H5892H3063H8077H3427
12Who is the man wise enough to understand this? Who has the LORD spoken to, that he may explain it? Why is the land destroyed and scorched like a wilderness, so no one can pass through?H2450H376H995H6310H3068H1696H5046H776H6H3341H4057H5674
13The LORD said, "It is because they abandoned My law I set in front of them and did not obey My voice or walk according to it.H3068H559H5800H8451H5414H6440H8085H6963H1980
14Instead, they followed the stubbornness of their hearts and the Baals, as their fathers taught them."H3212H310H8307H3820H310H1168H1H3925
15Therefore, this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: "I am about to feed this people wormwood and give them poisonous waters to drink.H559H3068H6635H430H3478H398H5971H3939H4325H7219H8248
16I will scatter them among nations that they and their fathers have not known. I will send a sword after them until I have finished them off."H6327H1471H1H3045H7971H2719H310H3615

Mourning over Judah

17This is what the LORD of Hosts says: Consider, and summon the women who mourn; send for the skillful women.H559H3068H6635H995H7121H6969H935H7971H2450H935
18Let them come quickly to raise a lament over us so that our eyes may overflow with tears, our eyelids soaked with weeping.H4116H5375H5092H5869H3381H1832H6079H5140H4325
19For a sound of lamentation is heard from Zion: How devastated we are. We are greatly ashamed, for we have abandoned the land; our dwellings have been torn down.H6963H5092H8085H6726H7703H3966H954H5800H776H4908H7993
20Now hear the word of the LORD, you women. Pay attention to the word of His mouth. Teach your daughters a lament and one another a dirge,H8085H1697H3068H802H241H3947H1697H6310H3925H1323H5092H802H7468H7015
21for Death has climbed through our windows; it has entered our fortresses, cutting off children from the streets, young men from the squares.H4194H5927H2474H935H759H3772H5768H2351H970H7339
22Speak as follows: This is what the LORD says: Human corpses will fall like manure on the surface of the field, like newly cut grain after the reaper with no one to gather [it].H1696H5002H3068H5038H120H5307H1828H6440H7704H5995H310H7114H622

Boast in the Lord

23This is what the LORD says: The wise must not boast in his wisdom; the mighty must not boast in his might; the rich must not boast in his riches.H559H3068H2450H1984H2451H1368H1984H1369H6223H1984H6239
24But the one who boasts should boast in this, that he understands and knows Me— that I am the LORD, showing faithful love, justice, and righteousness on the earth, for I delight in these things. [This is] the LORD's declaration.H1984H1984H7919H3045H3068H6213H2617H4941H6666H776H2654H5002H3068
25"The days are coming"— the LORD's declaration— "when I will punish all the circumcised yet uncircumcised:H3117H935H5002H3068H6485H4135H6190
26Egypt, Judah, Edom, the Ammonites, Moab, all those who clip the hair on their temples and reside in the wilderness. All these nations are uncircumcised, and the whole house of Israel is uncircumcised in heart."H4714H3063H123H1121H5983H4124H7112H6285H3427H4057H1471H6189H1004H3478H6189H3820


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