Jeremiah:9:1-9
rsv@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!
rsv@Jeremiah:9:2 @ O that I had in the desert a wayfarers' lodging place, that I might leave my people and go away from them! For they are all adulterers, a company of treacherous men.
rsv@Jeremiah:9:3 @ They bend their tongue like a bow; falsehood and not truth has grown strong in the land; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, says the LORD.
rsv@Jeremiah:9:4 @ Let every one beware of his neighbor, and put no trust in any brother; for every brother is a supplanter, and every neighbor goes about as a slanderer.
rsv@Jeremiah:9:5 @ Every one deceives his neighbor, and no one speaks the truth; they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they commit iniquity and are too weary to repent.
rsv@Jeremiah:9:6 @ Heaping oppression upon oppression, and deceit upon deceit, they refuse to know me, says the LORD.
rsv@Jeremiah:9:7 @ Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts: "Behold, I will refine them and test them, for what else can I do, because of my people?
rsv@Jeremiah:9:8 @ Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks deceitfully; with his mouth each speaks peaceably to his neighbor, but in his heart he plans an ambush for him.
rsv@Jeremiah:9:9 @ Shall I not punish them for these things? says the LORD; and shall I not avenge myself on a nation such as this?
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