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for they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/9-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/9-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Take ye heed every one of his neighbor, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will walk with slanders.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/9-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And they will deceive every one his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/9-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Thy habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/9-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/9-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/9-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Shall I not visit them for these things? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/9-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>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 cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast have fled; they are gone.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/9-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.</p> <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 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? <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/9-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And the LORD saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein; <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/9-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them: <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/9-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink. <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/9-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them.</p> <p class="hdg">Weeping in Jerusalem</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/9-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for skillful women, that they may come:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/9-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>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 waters.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/9-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we laid waste! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/9-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>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 neighbor lamentation.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/9-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>For death hath come up into our windows, and hath entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/9-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Speak, Thus saith the LORD, Even the carcasses of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvest-man, and none shall gather them.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/9-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches: <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/9-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>But let him that glorieth, glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the LORD who exercise loving-kindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the LORD.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/9-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will punish all them who are circumcised with the uncircumcised; <span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/9-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>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 house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Webster Bible Translation<br /><br /><a href="//bereanbible.com">Section Headings Courtesy BereanBible.com<br />© 2013, 2014 Used by Permission</a><span class="p"><br /><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../jeremiah/8.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Jeremiah 8"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Jeremiah 8" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../jeremiah/10.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Jeremiah 10"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Jeremiah 10" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpad/jeremiah/9-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframe120.htm" width="122" height="602" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe><br /><br /></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnm2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span></div></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>