Jeremiah 9:1WEB
Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a spring of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
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JeremiahWEB
Jeremiah 9:1WEB
Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a spring of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
Jeremiah 9:2WEB
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 are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
Jeremiah 9:3WEB
“They bend their tongue, as their bow, for falsehood. They have grown strong in the land, but not for truth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don’t know me,” says Yahweh.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Jeremiah 9:4WEB
“Everyone beware of his neighbor, and don’t trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go around like a slanderer.
Jeremiah 9:5WEB
Friends deceive each other, and will not speak the truth. They have taught their tongue to speak lies. They weary themselves committing iniquity.
Jeremiah 9:6WEB
Your habitation is in the middle of deceit. Through deceit, they refuse to know me,” says Yahweh.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Jeremiah 9:7WEB
Therefore Yahweh of Armies says, “Behold, I will melt them and test them; for how should I deal with the daughter of my people?
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Jeremiah 9:8WEB
Their tongue is a deadly arrow. It speaks deceit. One speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart, he waits to ambush him.
Jeremiah 9:9WEB
Shouldn’t I punish them for these things?” says Yahweh. “Shouldn’t my soul be avenged on a nation such as this?
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Jeremiah 9:10WEB
I will weep and wail for the mountains, and lament for the pastures of the wilderness, because they are burned up, so that no one passes through; Men can’t hear the voice of the livestock. Both the birds of the sky and the animals have fled. They are gone.
Jeremiah 9:11WEB
“I will make Jerusalem heaps, a dwelling place of jackals. I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”
Jeremiah 9:12WEB
Who is wise enough to understand this? Who is he to whom the mouth of Yahweh has spoken, that he may declare it? Why has the land perished and burned up like a wilderness, so that no one passes through?
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Jeremiah 9:13WEB
Yahweh says, “Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice or walked in my ways,
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Jeremiah 9:14WEB
but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart and after the Baals, which their fathers taught them.”
Jeremiah 9:15WEB
Therefore Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says, “Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Jeremiah 9:16WEB
I will scatter them also among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known. I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them.”
Jeremiah 9:17WEB
Yahweh of Armies says, “Consider, and call for the mourning women, that they may come. Send for the skillful women, that they may come.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Jeremiah 9:18WEB
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.
Jeremiah 9:19WEB
For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, ‘How we are ruined! We are greatly confounded because we have forsaken the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.’”
Jeremiah 9:20WEB
Yet hear Yahweh’s word, you women. Let your ear receive the word of his mouth. Teach your daughters wailing. Everyone teach her neighbor a lamentation.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Jeremiah 9:21WEB
For death has come up into our windows. It has entered into our palaces to cut off the children from outside, and the young men from the streets.
Jeremiah 9:22WEB
Speak, “Yahweh says, “‘The dead bodies of men will fall as dung on the open field, and as the handful after the harvester. No one will gather them.’”
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Jeremiah 9:23WEB
Yahweh says, “Don’t let the wise man glory in his wisdom. Don’t let the mighty man glory in his might. Don’t let the rich man glory in his riches.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Jeremiah 9:24WEB
But let him who glories glory in this, that he has understanding, and knows me, that I am Yahweh who exercises loving kindness, justice, and righteousness in the earth, for I delight in these things,” says Yahweh.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Jeremiah 9:25WEB
“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will punish all those who are circumcised only in their flesh:
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Jeremiah 9:26WEB
Egypt, Judah, Edom, the children of Ammon, Moab, and all who have the corners of their hair cut off, who dwell in the wilderness, for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart.”
Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, which is in the public domain.