JER-9:1 Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of

tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the

daughter of my people!

JER-9:2 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of

wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them!

for they [be] all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

JER-9:3 And they bend their tongues [like] their bow [for] lies:

but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they

proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD.

JER-9:4 Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye

not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and

every neighbour will walk with slanders.

JER-9:5 And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will

not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies,

 [and] weary themselves to commit iniquity.

JER-9:6 Thine habitation [is] in the midst of deceit; through

deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD.

JER-9:7 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will

melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of

my people?

JER-9:8 Their tongue [is as] an arrow shot out; it speaketh

deceit: [one] speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth,

 but in heart he layeth his wait.

JER-9:9 Shall I not visit them for these [things]? saith the

LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

JER-9:10 For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing,

and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because

they are burned up, so that none can pass through [them];

neither can [men] hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of

the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone.

JER-9:11 And I will make Jerusalem heaps, [and] a den of dragons;

 and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an

inhabitant.

JER-9:12 Who [is] the wise man, that may understand this? and

[who is he] to whom the mouth of the LORD hath spoken, that he

may declare it, for what the land perisheth [and] is burned up

like a wilderness, that none passeth through?

JER-9:13 And the LORD saith, Because they have forsaken my law

which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither

walked therein;

JER-9:14 But have walked after the imagination of their own

heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:

JER-9:15 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of

Israel; Behold, I will feed them, [even] this people, with

wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.

JER-9:16 I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom

neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a

sword after them, till I have consumed them.

JER-9:17 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and call for

the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning

[women], that they may come:

JER-9:18 And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us,

that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out

with waters.

JER-9:19 For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we

spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the

land, because our dwellings have cast [us] out.

JER-9:20 Yet hear the word of the LORD, O ye women, and let your

ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters

wailing, and every one her neighbour lamentation.

JER-9:21 For death is come up into our windows, [and] is entered

into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, [and]

the young men from the streets.

JER-9:22 Speak, Thus saith the LORD, Even the carcases of men

shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after

the harvestman, and none shall gather [them].

JER-9:23 Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise [man] glory in

his wisdom, neither let the mighty [man] glory in his might, let

not the rich [man] glory in his riches:

JER-9:24 But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he

understandeth and knoweth me, that I [am] the LORD which

exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the

earth: for in these [things] I delight, saith the LORD.

JER-9:25 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will

punish all [them which are] circumcised with the uncircumcised;

JER-9:26 Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon,

and Moab, and all [that are] in the utmost corners, that dwell

in the wilderness: for all [these] nations [are] uncircumcised,

and all the house of Israel [are] uncircumcised in the heart. 

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