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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Jeremiah 9 Literal Standard Version</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/jeremiah/9.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/jeremiah/9-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">LSV</a> > Jeremiah 9</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../jeremiah/8.htm" title="Jeremiah 8">◄</a> Jeremiah 9 <a href="../jeremiah/10.htm" title="Jeremiah 10">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Literal Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/jeremiah/9-1.htm#aramaic" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/9-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Who makes my head waters, "" And my eye a fountain of tears? And I weep by day and by night, "" For the wounded of the daughter of my people.<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/9-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Who gives me in a wilderness "" A lodging-place for travelers? And I leave my people, and go from them, "" For all of them [are] adulterers, "" An assembly of treacherous ones.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/9-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>“And they bend their tongue, "" Their bow [is] a lie, "" And they have not been mighty for steadfastness in the land, "" For they have gone forth from evil to evil, "" And they have not known Me,” "" A declaration of YHWH!<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/9-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>“You each beware of his friend, "" And do not trust any brother, "" For every brother utterly supplants, "" For every friend slanderously walks,<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/9-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And they each mock at his friend, "" And they do not speak truth, "" They taught their tongue to speak falsehood, "" They have labored to commit iniquity.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/9-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Your dwelling [is] in the midst of deceit, "" Through deceit they refused to know Me,” "" A declaration of YHWH.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/9-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Therefore, thus said YHWH of Hosts: “Behold, I am refining them, and have tried them, "" For how do I deal with the daughter of My people?<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/9-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Their tongue [is] a slaughtering arrow, "" It has spoken deceit in its mouth, "" It speaks peace with its neighbor, "" And in its heart it lays its ambush,<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/9-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Do I not see after them for these things?” A declaration of YHWH, “Does My soul not avenge itself against a nation such as this?”<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/9-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>I lift up weeping and wailing for the mountains, "" And a lamentation for the habitations of the wilderness, "" For they have been burned up without any passing over, "" Nor have they heard the voice of livestock, "" From the bird of the heavens and to the beast—they have fled, "" They have gone.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/9-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>“And I make Jerusalem become heaps, "" A habitation of dragons, "" And I make the cities of Judah a desolation, "" Without inhabitant.”<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/9-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Who [is] the wise man? And he understands this, "" And he to whom the mouth of YHWH spoke? And he declares it, "" For why has the land perished? It has been burned up as a wilderness, "" Without any passing through. <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/9-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And YHWH says: “Because of their forsaking My law that I set before them, "" And they have not listened to My voice nor walked in it, <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/9-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And they walk after the stubbornness of their heart, "" And after the Ba‘alim, "" That their fathers taught them,” <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/9-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Therefore, thus said YHWH of Hosts, God of Israel: “Behold, I am causing them—this people—to eat wormwood, "" And I have caused them to drink water of gall, <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/9-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And I have scattered them among nations "" Which they did not know, they and their fathers, "" And have sent the sword after them, "" Until I have consumed them.”<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/9-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Thus said YHWH of Hosts: “Consider, and call for mourning women, "" And they come, "" And send to the wise women, "" And they come,<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/9-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And they hurry, and lift up a wailing for us. And tears run down our eyes, "" And waters flow from our eyelids.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/9-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>For a voice of wailing is heard from Zion: How we have been spoiled! We have been greatly ashamed, "" Because we have forsaken the land, "" Because they have cast down our dwelling places.”<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/9-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>But hear, you women, a word of YHWH, "" And your ear receives a word of His mouth, "" And teach your daughters wailing, "" And each her neighbor lamentation.<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/9-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>For death has come up into our windows, "" It has come into our palaces, "" To cut off the suckling from outside, "" Young men from the broad places.<p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/9-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Speak thus, “A declaration of YHWH, "" And the carcass of man has fallen, "" As dung on the face of the field, "" And as a handful after the reaper, "" And there is none gathering.”<p> <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/9-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Thus said YHWH: “Do not let the wise boast himself in his wisdom, "" Nor let the mighty boast himself in his might, "" Do not let the rich boast himself in his riches, <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/9-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>But let the boaster boast himself in this, "" In understanding and knowing Me, "" For I [am] YHWH, doing kindness, "" Judgment, and righteousness, in the earth, "" For I have delighted in these,” "" A declaration of YHWH.<p> <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/9-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>“Behold, days are coming,” "" A declaration of YHWH, "" “And I have laid a charge on all circumcised in the foreskin, <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/9-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>On Egypt, and on Judah, and on Edom, "" And on the sons of Ammon, and on Moab, "" And on all cutting the corner [of the beard], "" Who are dwelling in the wilderness, "" For all the nations [are] uncircumcised, "" And all the house of Israel [are] uncircumcised in heart!”<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Literal Standard Version<br>Copyright © 2022 by Covenant Press. 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