Jeremiah:8:4-9:26
noyes@Jeremiah:8:4 @ Thou shalt also say to them, Thus saith Jehovah, Doth a man fall, and not rise again? Doth one turn aside from the way, and not return,
noyes@Jeremiah:8:5 @ Why then hath this people, Why hath Jerusalem, completely revolted? They hold fast deceit; They refuse to return.
noyes@Jeremiah:8:6 @ I have listened and heard, But they speak not aright; No one repenteth of his wickedness, Saying, "What have I done?" Every one runneth at full speed in his rebellion, As a horse rusheth to the battle.
noyes@Jeremiah:8:7 @ Even the stork in the heavens knoweth her times, And the turtledove and the swallow and the crane observe the season of their coming, But my people regard not the laws of Jehovah.
noyes@Jeremiah:8:8 @ How is it that ye say, "We are wise, We possess the law of Jehovah"? Behold, the false pen of the scribes Hath turned it into falsehood.
noyes@Jeremiah:8:9 @ The wise men shall be confounded; They shall be dismayed and ensnared; Behold, they have rejected the word of Jehovah, And what wisdom is there in them?
noyes@Jeremiah:8:10 @ Therefore will I give their wives to others, And their fields to plunderers. For from the least of them even to the greatest, Every one is greedy of gain, Prophet and priest alike, Every one of them practiseth deceit.
noyes@Jeremiah:8:11 @ They heal the wound of my people slightly, Saying, Peace! peace! when there is no peace.
noyes@Jeremiah:8:12 @ Are they ashamed, that they have done abominable things? Nay, they are not at all ashamed; They know not how to blush. Therefore shall they fall with them that fall; At the time when I punish them, They shall be cast down, saith Jehovah.
noyes@Jeremiah:8:13 @ I will utterly consume them, saith Jehovah; There shall be no grapes on the vine, Nor shall there be from the figtree; Even the leaf shall be withered; For I will send those that shall overrun them.
noyes@Jeremiah:8:14 @ "Why do we remain here?" "Assemble yourselves and let us go into the fortified cities. And let us there wait in silence! For Jehovah our God hath put us to silence, And given us the water of hemlock to drink, Because we have sinned against Jehovah.
noyes@Jeremiah:8:15 @ We look for peace, but no good cometh; For a time of deliverance, and behold, terror!"
noyes@Jeremiah:8:16 @ From Dan is heard the snorting of their horses, At the sound of the neighing of their steeds the whole land trembleth; They come and devour the land, and all that is in it; The city, and them that dwell therein.
noyes@Jeremiah:8:17 @ Behold I send against you serpents, Basilisks, which cannot be charmed, And they shall bite you, saith Jehovah.
noyes@Jeremiah:8:18 @ O where is consolation for my sorrow! My heart is faint within me.
noyes@Jeremiah:8:19 @ Behold, the cry of the daughter of my people from a far country! "Is not Jehovah in Zion? Is her King there no more?" Why then have they provoked me by their graven images, And their foreign vanities?
noyes@Jeremiah:8:20 @ The harvest is passed, the summer is ended, And we are not delivered.
noyes@Jeremiah:8:21 @ For the wound of the daughter of my people am I wounded; I mourn; amazement hath taken hold of me.
noyes@Jeremiah:8:22 @ Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then are not the wounds of my people healed?
noyes@Jeremiah:9:1 @ O 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!
noyes@Jeremiah:9:2 @ O that I had a travellers lodge in the wilderness, That I might leave my people, and go from them! For they are all adulterers; An assembly of revolters.
noyes@Jeremiah:9:3 @ They bend their tongues, like their bows, for lies, And not by truth do they grow mighty in the earth; They proceed from wickedness to wickedness, And have no regard to me, saith Jehovah.
noyes@Jeremiah:9:4 @ Be on your guard each one against his neighbor, And trust ye not in any brother; For every brother will supplant, And every neighbor will slander.
noyes@Jeremiah:9:5 @ They deceive every one his neighbor, And do not speak the truth; They have accustomed their tongues to speak lies; They weary themselves in doing iniquity.
noyes@Jeremiah:9:6 @ Thy habitation is in the midst of deceit, Through deceit they refuse to know me, saith Jehovah.
noyes@Jeremiah:9:7 @ Therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Behold I will melt them and try them; For what else can I do on account of the daughter of my people?
noyes@Jeremiah:9:8 @ Their tongue is a deadly arrow; Every one of them speaketh treachery; With their mouth they speak peace to their neighbor, But in their heart they lay snares for him.
noyes@Jeremiah:9:9 @ Shall I not punish them for these things? saith Jehovah; Shall I not be avenged on such a nation as this?
noyes@Jeremiah:9:10 @ For the mountains will I lift up a weeping and wailing, And for the pastures of the plains a lamentation, For they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; No more is heard the voice of the cattle; Both the birds of the heavens and the beasts have fled, and are gone.
noyes@Jeremiah:9:11 @ I will make Jerusalem heaps of stones, The dwellingplace of jackals; And I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.
noyes@Jeremiah:9:12 @ Who is the wise man, that he may understand this, And he to whom the mouth of the Lord hath spoken, that he may declare it? Why is it that the land perisheth, That it is burned up like a desert, which none passeth through?
noyes@Jeremiah:9:13 @ Jehovah himself hath said: It is because they have forsaken my law, Which I set before them, And have not hearkened to my voice, Nor walked according to it;
noyes@Jeremiah:9:14 @ But have walked after the obstinacy of their own heart, And after the Baals, as their fathers taught them.
noyes@Jeremiah:9:15 @ Therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will feed this people with wormwood, And give them water of hemlock to drink.
noyes@Jeremiah:9:16 @ I will also scatter them among nations Which neither they nor their fathers have known, And I will send after them the sword, Till I have made an end of them.
noyes@Jeremiah:9:17 @ Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come, And send to the skilful ones, that they may come;
noyes@Jeremiah:9:18 @ Let them make haste, and lift up a wailing for us, That our eyes may run down with tears, And our eyelids gush forth with waters.
noyes@Jeremiah:9:19 @ Behold, a voice of wailing is heard from Zion: "How are we spoiled! How are we put to shame! We must leave our native land; They have cast down our habitations."
noyes@Jeremiah:9:20 @ Hear, O ye women, the word of Jehovah! Let your ear receive the word of his mouth! Teach your daughters a lamentation, And every one her companion a mournful dirge!
noyes@Jeremiah:9:21 @ For death cometh in through our windows, It entereth our palaces; It cutteth off the children from the street, And the young men from the public places.
noyes@Jeremiah:9:22 @ Declare it, saith Jehovah! The dead bodies of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, And as the handful behind the reaper, Which none gathereth up.
noyes@Jeremiah:9:23 @ Thus saith Jehovah: Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, Nor let the mighty glory in his might, Nor let the rich glory in his riches!
noyes@Jeremiah:9:24 @ But let him that glorieth glory in this, That he hath regard to me, and knoweth me, That I am Jehovah, who exercise lovingkindness, Justice, and righteousness upon the earth; For in these do I delight, saith Jehovah.
noyes@Jeremiah:9:25 @ Behold the days come, saith Jehovah, That I will punish all the circumcised with the uncircumcised,
noyes@Jeremiah:9:26 @ Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, And the sons of Ammon and Moab, And all with shaven cheeks, that dwell in the wilderness. For all the nations are uncircumcised, And all the house of Israel is uncircumcised in heart.
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