rwbs - Jeremiah:8-10

rwbs@Jeremiah:8:1 @ At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves:

rwbs@Jeremiah:8:2 @ And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for refuse upon the face of the earth.

rwbs@Jeremiah:8:3 @ And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the remnant of them that remain of this evil family, who remain in all the places where I have driven them, saith the LORD of hosts.

rwbs@Jeremiah:8:4 @ Moreover thou shalt say to them, Thus saith the LORD; Shall they fall, and not rise? shall he turn away, and not return?

rwbs@Jeremiah:8:5 @ Why hath this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.

rwbs@Jeremiah:8:6 @ I hearkened and heard, they spoke not aright: no man repented of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to his course, as the horse rusheth to the battle.

rwbs@Jeremiah:8:7 @ Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtledove and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.

rwbs@Jeremiah:8:8 @ How do ye say, We wise, and the law of the LORD with us? Lo, certainly in vain he hath made; the pen of the scribes in vain. (note:)in vain made…: or, the false pen of the scribes worketh for falsehood(:note)

rwbs@Jeremiah:8:9 @ The wise are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom in them? (note:)The wise…: or, Have they been ashamed, etc(:note)what…: Hebrews. the wisdom of what thing

rwbs@Jeremiah:8:10 @ Therefore will I give their wives to others, their fields to them that shall inherit: for every one from the least even to the greatest is given to covetousness, from the prophet even to the priest every one dealeth falsely.

rwbs@Jeremiah:8:11 @ For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when no peace.

rwbs@Jeremiah:8:12 @ Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their punishment they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.

rwbs@Jeremiah:8:13 @ I will surely consume them, saith the LORD: no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and I have given to them shall pass away from them. (note:)I will…: or, In gathering I will consume(:note)

rwbs@Jeremiah:8:14 @ Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fortified cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD. (note:)gall: or, poison(:note)

rwbs@Jeremiah:8:15 @ We looked for peace, but no good for a time of health, and behold trouble!

rwbs@Jeremiah:8:16 @ The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan: the whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for they have come, and have devoured the land, and all that is in it; the city, and those that dwell in it. (note:)all…: Hebrews. the fulness thereof(:note)

rwbs@Jeremiah:8:17 @ For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which not charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD.

rwbs@Jeremiah:8:18 @ I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart faint in me. (note:)in: Hebrews. upon(:note)

rwbs@Jeremiah:8:19 @ Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a distant country: not the LORD in Zion? not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, with foreign vanities? (note:)them…: Hebrews. the country of them that are far off(:note)

rwbs@Jeremiah:8:20 @ The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.

rwbs@Jeremiah:8:21 @ For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.

rwbs@Jeremiah:8:22 @ no balm in Gilead; no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered? (note:)recovered: Hebrews. gone up?(:note)

rwbs@Jeremiah:9:1 @ O 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! (note:)Oh…: Hebrews. Who will give my head, etc(:note)

rwbs@Jeremiah:9:2 @ O that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

rwbs@Jeremiah:9:3 @ And they bend their tongues their bow 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.

rwbs@Jeremiah: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. (note:)neighbour: or, friend(:note)

rwbs@Jeremiah:9:5 @ And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, weary themselves to commit iniquity. (note:)deceive: or, mock(:note)

rwbs@Jeremiah:9:6 @ Thy habitation in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD.

rwbs@Jeremiah: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?

rwbs@Jeremiah:9:8 @ Their tongue an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he lieth in wait. (note:)in heart: Hebrews. in the midst of him(:note)his wait: or, wait for him

rwbs@Jeremiah:9:9 @ Shall I not punish them for these? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

rwbs@Jeremiah: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; neither can hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast have fled; they are gone. (note:)habitations: or, pastures(:note)burned up: or, desolateboth…: Hebrews. from the fowl even to, etc

rwbs@Jeremiah:9:11 @ And I will make Jerusalem heaps, a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant. (note:)desolate: Hebrews. desolation(:note)

rwbs@Jeremiah:9:12 @ Who the wise man, that may understand this? and to whom the mouth of the LORD hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perisheth is burned up like a wilderness, that none passeth through?

rwbs@Jeremiah: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 in it;

rwbs@Jeremiah:9:14 @ But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them: (note:)imagination: or, stubbornness(:note)

rwbs@Jeremiah:9:15 @ Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.

rwbs@Jeremiah: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.

rwbs@Jeremiah:9:17 @ Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for skilful, that they may come:

rwbs@Jeremiah: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.

rwbs@Jeremiah:9:19 @ For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we laid waste! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast out.

rwbs@Jeremiah: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.

rwbs@Jeremiah:9:21 @ For death hath come up into our windows, hath entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from outside, the young men from the streets.

rwbs@Jeremiah:9:22 @ Speak, Thus saith the LORD, Even the dead bodies of men shall fall as refuse upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman, and none shall gather.

rwbs@Jeremiah:9:23 @ Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty glory in his might, let not the rich glory in his riches:

rwbs@Jeremiah:9:24 @ But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I the LORD who exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these I delight, saith the LORD.

rwbs@Jeremiah:9:25 @ Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will punish all circumcised with the uncircumcised; (note:)punish: Hebrews. visit upon(:note)

rwbs@Jeremiah:9:26 @ Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all nations uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel uncircumcised in the heart. (note:)in the utmost…: Hebrews. cut off into corners, or, having the corners of their hair polled(:note)

rwbs@Jeremiah:10:1 @ Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh to you, O house of Israel:

rwbs@Jeremiah:10:2 @ Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.

rwbs@Jeremiah:10:3 @ For the customs of the people vain: for cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. (note:)customs…: Hebrews. statutes, or, ordinances are vanity(:note)

rwbs@Jeremiah:10:4 @ They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it may not move.

rwbs@Jeremiah:10:5 @ They upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also in them to do good.

rwbs@Jeremiah:10:6 @ Forasmuch as none like thee, O LORD; thou great, and thy name great in might.

rwbs@Jeremiah:10:7 @ Who would not fear thee, O King of nations? for to thee doth it appertain: forasmuch as among all the wise of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, none like thee. (note:)to…: or, it liketh thee(:note)

rwbs@Jeremiah:10:8 @ But they are altogether stupid and foolish: the stock a doctrine of vanities. (note:)altogether: Hebrews. in one, or, at once(:note)

rwbs@Jeremiah:10:9 @ Silver beaten into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the craftsman, and of the hands of the goldsmith: blue and purple their clothing: they all the work of skilful.

rwbs@Jeremiah:10:10 @ But the LORD the true God, he the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation. (note:)true…: Hebrews. God of truth(:note)living God: Heb. living Godseverlasting…: Heb. king of eternity

rwbs@Jeremiah:10:11 @ Thus shall ye say to them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens.

rwbs@Jeremiah:10:12 @ He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his understanding.

rwbs@Jeremiah:10:13 @ When he uttereth his voice, a multitude of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures. (note:)multitude: or, noise(:note)with: or, for

rwbs@Jeremiah:10:14 @ Every man is stupid in knowledge: every goldsmith is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image falsehood, and no breath in them. (note:)brutish in his knowledge: or, more brutish than to know(:note)

rwbs@Jeremiah:10:15 @ They vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their punishment they shall perish.

rwbs@Jeremiah:10:16 @ The portion of Jacob not like them: for he the former of all; and Israel the rod of his inheritance: The LORD of hosts his name.

rwbs@Jeremiah:10:17 @ Gather up thy wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the fortress. (note:)inhabitant: Hebrews. inhabitress(:note)

rwbs@Jeremiah:10:18 @ For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this once, and will distress them, that they may find.

rwbs@Jeremiah:10:19 @ Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this a grief, and I must bear it.

rwbs@Jeremiah:10:20 @ My tabernacle is spoiled, and all my cords are broken: my children are gone forth from me, and they not: none to stretch forth my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.

rwbs@Jeremiah:10:21 @ For the pastors have become stupid, and have not sought the LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered.

rwbs@Jeremiah:10:22 @ Behold, the sound of a rumour is come, and a great commotion from the north country, to make the cities of Judah desolate, a den of dragons.

rwbs@Jeremiah:10:23 @ O LORD, I know that the way of man not in himself: not in man that walketh to direct his steps.

rwbs@Jeremiah:10:24 @ O LORD, correct me, but with judgment; not in thy anger, lest thou bring me to nothing. (note:)bring…: Hebrews. diminish me(:note)

rwbs@Jeremiah:10:25 @ Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.

rwbs@Jeremiah:11:1 @ The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,