Jeremiah:9

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* 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 ! * Oh that I were in the wilderness , in 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 . * And they bend their tongue , their bow of falsehood ; and they are grown mighty in the land , but not for truth ; for they proceed from evil to evil , and Me they know not , saith the LORD . * Take ye heed every one of his neighbour , and trust ye not in any brother ; for every brother acteth subtly , and every neighbour goeth about with slanders . * And they deceive every one his neighbour , and truth they speak not ; they have taught their tongue to speak lies , they weary themselves to commit iniquity . * Thy habitation is in the midst of deceit ; through deceit they refuse to know Me , saith the LORD . * Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts : Behold , I will smelt them , and try them ; for how else should I do , because of the daughter of My people ? * Their tongue is a sharpened arrow , it speaketh deceit ; one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth , but in his heart he layeth wait for him . * Shall I not punish them for these things ? saith the LORD ; Shall not My soul be avenged on such a nation as this ? * For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing , and for the pastures of the wilderness a lamentation , because they are burned up , so that none passeth through . And they hear not the voice of the cattle ; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled , and gone . * And I will make Jerusalem heaps , a lair of jackals ; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation , without an inhabitant . * Who is the wise man , that he may understand this ? And who is he to whom the mouth of the LORD hath spoken , that he may declare it ? Wherefore is the land perished and laid waste like a wilderness , so that none passeth through ? * And the LORD saith : Because they have forsaken My law which I set before them , and have not hearkened to My voice , neither walked therein ; * But have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart , and after the Baalim , which their fathers taught them . * 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 . * I will scatter them also among the nations , whom neither they nor their fathers have known ; and I will send the sword after them , till I have consumed them . * Thus saith the LORD of hosts : Consider ye , and call for the mourning women , that they may come ; and send for the wise women , that they may come ; * 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 . * For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion : 'How are we undone ! We are greatly confounded , because we have forsaken the land , because our dwellings have cast us out .' * Yea , 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 : * 'For death is come up into our windows , it is entered into our palaces , to cut off the children from the street , and the young men from the broad places .-- * Speak : Thus saith the LORD--And the carcasses of men fall as dung upon the open field , and as the handful after the harvestman , which none gathereth .' * 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 ; * But let him that glorieth glory in this , that he understandeth , and knoweth Me , that I am the LORD who exercise mercy , justice , and righteousness , in the earth ; for in these things I delight , saith the LORD . * Behold , the days come , saith the LORD , that I will punish all them that are circumcised in their uncircumcision : * Egypt , and Judah , and Edom , and the children of Ammon , and Moab , and all that have the corners of their hair polled , that dwell in the wilderness ; for all the nations are uncircumcised , but all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart .

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