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that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they <i>be</i> 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 <i>like</i> their bow <i>for</i> 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 neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour 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 neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, <i>and</i> weary themselves to commit iniquity.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/9-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Thine habitation <i>is</i> 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 <i>is as</i> an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: <i>one</i> speaketh peaceably to his neighbour 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 <i>things</i>? 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 <i>them</i>; neither can <i>men</i> hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are 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, <i>and</i> 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 <i>is</i> the wise man, that may understand this? and <i>who is he</i> to whom the mouth of the LORD hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perisheth <i>and</i> 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, <i>even</i> 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 cunning <i>women</i>, 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 spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast <i>us</i> 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 neighbour lamentation.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/jeremiah/9-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>For death is come up into our windows, <i>and</i> is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, <i>and</i> 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 carcases of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman, and none shall gather <i>them</i>.</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 <i>man</i> glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty <i>man</i> glory in his might, let not the rich <i>man</i> 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 <i>am</i> the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these <i>things</i> 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 <i>them which are</i> 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 <i>that are</i> in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all <i>these</i> nations <i>are</i> uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel <i>are</i> uncircumcised in the heart.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">King James Bible<br /><br />Text courtesy of <a href="http://www.bibleprotector.com/"> BibleProtector.com</a><br /><br />Section Headings Courtesy <a href="http://intbible.com/">INT Bible</a><br />© 2012, Used by Permission<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></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpc/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 width="122" height="860" scrolling="no" src="../sidemenu.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="bot"><div align="center" style="background-color:#F2FAFF"><br /><br /><div align="center"><div align="center"><script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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