Jeremiah Chapter 9
9:1 | Oh that my head were ![]() ![]() |
9:2 | 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. |
9:3 | And they bend their tongues [like] their bow [for] lies: but they are not valiant for the ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
9:4 | Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and ![]() |
9:5 | And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the ![]() |
9:6 | Thine habitation [is] in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD. |
9:7 | Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how shall I ![]() |
9:8 | 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. |
9:9 | Shall I not visit them for these [things]? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? |
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 [them]; neither can [men] hear the voice of the ![]() |
9:11 | And I will make ![]() |
9:12 | 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? |
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 therein; |
9:14 | But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them: |
9:15 | Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of ![]() ![]() ![]() |
9:16 | I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a ![]() |
9:17 | 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: |
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 ![]() |
9:19 | 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. |
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. |
9:21 | For ![]() |
9:22 | 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]. |
9:23 | Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise [man] ![]() ![]() ![]() |
9:24 | But let him that glorieth ![]() ![]() |
9:25 | Behold, the ![]() |
9:26 | 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 ![]() ![]() |