Jeremiah-9

(New International Version)

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  • 1 9 In Hebrew texts 9:1 is numbered 8:23, and 9:2-26 is numbered 9:1-25. Oh, 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.
  • 2 Oh, 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.
  • 3 “They make ready their tongue like a bow, to shoot lies; it is not by truth that they triumph 9:3 Or lies; / they are not valiant for truth in the land. They go from one sin to another; they do not acknowledge me,” declares the Lord.
  • 4 “Beware of your friends; do not trust anyone in your clan. For every one of them is a deceiver, 9:4 Or a deceiving Jacob and every friend a slanderer.
  • 5 Friend deceives friend, and no one speaks the truth. They have taught their tongues to lie; they weary themselves with sinning.
  • 6 You 9:6 That is, Jeremiah (the Hebrew is singular) live in the midst of deception; in their deceit they refuse to acknowledge me,” declares the Lord.
  • 7 Therefore 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?
  • 8 Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks deceitfully. With their mouths they all speak cordially to their neighbors, but in their hearts they set traps for them.
  • 9 Should I not punish them for this?” declares the Lord. “Should I not avenge myself on such a nation as this?”
  • 10 I will weep and wail for the mountains and take up a lament concerning the wilderness grasslands. They are desolate and untraveled, and the lowing of cattle is not heard. The birds have all fled and the animals are gone.
  • 11 “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.”
  • 12 Who 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?
  • 13 The Lord said, “It is because they have forsaken my law, which I set before them; they have not obeyed me or followed my law.
  • 14 Instead, they have followed the stubbornness of their hearts; they have followed the Baals, as their ancestors taught them.”
  • 15 Therefore this is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: “See, I will make this people eat bitter food and drink poisoned water.
  • 16 I will scatter them among nations that neither they nor their ancestors have known, and I will pursue them with the sword until I have made an end of them.”
  • 17 This is what the Lord Almighty says: “Consider now! Call for the wailing women to come; send for the most skillful of them.
  • 18 Let them come quickly and wail over us till our eyes overflow with tears and water streams from our eyelids.
  • 19 The 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.’ ”
  • 20 Now, you 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.
  • 21 Death has climbed in through our windows and has entered our fortresses; it has removed the children from the streets and the young men from the public squares.
  • 22 Say, “This is what the Lord declares: “ ‘Dead bodies will lie like dung on the open field, like cut grain behind the reaper, with no one to gather them.’ ”
  • 23 This is what the Lord says: “Let not the wise boast of their wisdom or the strong boast of their strength or the rich boast of their riches,
  • 24 but let the one who boasts boast about this: that they have the understanding to know me, that I am the Lord, who exercises kindness, justice and righteousness on earth, for in these I delight,” declares the Lord.
  • 25 “The days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will punish all who are circumcised only in the flesh—
  • 26 Egypt, Judah, Edom, Ammon, Moab and all who live in the wilderness in distant places. 9:26 Or wilderness and who clip the hair by their foreheads For all these nations are really uncircumcised, and even the whole house of Israel is uncircumcised in heart.”
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