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 !
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit ;
through deceit they refuse to know me ,
saith the LORD .
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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 ?
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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 .
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Shall I not visit them for these things ?
saith the LORD :
shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this ?
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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 .
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And I will make Jerusalem heaps ,
and a den of dragons ;
and I will make the cities of Judah desolate ,
without an inhabitant .
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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 ?
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And the LORD saith ,
Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them ,
and have not obeyed my voice ,
neither walked therein ;
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But have walked after the imagination of their own heart ,
and after Baalim ,
which their fathers taught them :
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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 .
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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 .
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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 :
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 :
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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 .
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Behold ,
the days come ,
saith the LORD ,
that I will punish all them which are circumcised with the uncircumcised ;
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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 .