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<p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/9-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Their tongue is a slaughtering arrow; <p class="indent2">It speaks deceit; <p class="indent2">With his mouth one speaks peace to his neighbor, <p class="indent2">But inwardly he sets an ambush for him. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/9-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Shall I not punish them for these things?” declares Yahweh. <p class="indent2">“On a nation such as this <p class="indent2">Shall I not avenge Myself? <p class="reg"><p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/9-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>“For the mountains I will take up a weeping and wailing, <p class="indent2">And for the pastures of the wilderness a <i>funeral</i> lamentation, <p class="indent2">Because they are turned into ruin so that no one passes through, <p class="indent2">And the lowing of the cattle is not heard; <p class="indent2">Both the birds of the sky and the beasts have fled; they are gone. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/9-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, <p class="indent2">A haunt of jackals; <p class="indent2">And I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.” <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/9-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Who is the wise man that may understand this? And <i>who is</i> he to whom the mouth of Yahweh has spoken, that he may declare it? Why has the land perished, turned into ruin like a desert, so that no one passes through? <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/9-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Yahweh said, “Because they have forsaken My law, which I set before them, and have not listened to My voice nor walked according to it, <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/9-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>but have walked after the stubbornness of their heart and after the Baals, as their fathers taught them,” <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/9-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>therefore thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, “behold, I will feed them, this people, with wormwood and give them <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>poisoned water to drink. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/9-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>I will scatter them among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known; and I will send the sword after them until I have consumed them.” <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/9-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Thus says Yahweh of hosts, <p class="indent2">“Carefully consider and call for the mourning women, that they may come; <p class="indent2">And send for the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>skillful women, that they may come! <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/9-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Let them make haste and take up a wailing for us, <p class="indent2">That our eyes may shed tears <p class="indent2">And our eyelids flow with water. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/9-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>For a voice of wailing is heard from Zion, <p class="indent2">‘How we are destroyed! <p class="indent2">We are put to great shame, <p class="indent2">For we have left the land <p class="indent2">Because they have cast down our dwellings.’” <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/9-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Indeed, hear the word of Yahweh, O you women, <p class="indent2">And let your ear receive the word of His mouth; <p class="indent2">Teach your daughters wailing, <p class="indent2">And everyone her neighbor a <i>funeral</i> lamentation. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/9-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>For death has come up through our windows; <p class="indent2">It has entered our palaces <p class="indent2">To cut off the infants from the streets, <p class="indent2">The choice men from the open squares. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/9-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Speak, “Thus declares Yahweh, <p class="indent2">‘The corpses of men will fall like dung on the open field <p class="indent2">And like the sheaf after the reaper, <p class="indent2">But no one will gather <i>them</i>.’” <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/9-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Thus says Yahweh, “Let not a wise man boast in his wisdom, and let not the mighty man boast in his might; let not a rich man boast in his riches, <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/9-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>but let him who boasts boast in this, that he <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>understands and knows Me, that I am Yahweh who shows lovingkindness, justice, and righteousness on earth; for I delight in these things,” declares Yahweh. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/9-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>“Behold, the days are coming,” declares Yahweh, “that I will punish all who are circumcised and yet uncircumcised— <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/9-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Egypt and Judah, and Edom and the sons of Ammon, and Moab and all those inhabiting the desert who clip the hair on their temples; for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised of heart.”<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="fnverse">1</span> Ch 8:23 in Heb<br><span class="fnverse">2</span> Ch 9:1 in Heb<br><span class="fnverse">4</span> Heb sounds like Jacob (a play on words)<br><span class="fnverse">15</span> Or <i>gall</i><br><span class="fnverse">17</span> Lit <i>wise</i><br><span class="fnverse">24</span> Lit <i>has insight</i><br></div><br /><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Legacy Standard Bible Copyright ©2021 by The Lockman Foundation<br>All rights reserved. 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