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| 9:1 |
Oh, that my head were waters, And my eyes a fountain of tears, That I might weep day and night For the slain of the daughter of my people!
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| 9:2 |
O that I had in the desert A wayfarers' lodging place; That I might leave my people, And go from them! For all of them are adulterers, An assembly of treacherous men.
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| 9:3 |
"And they bend their tongue [like] their bow; Lies and not truth prevail in the land; For they proceed from evil to evil, And they do not know Me," declares the LORD.
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| 9:4 |
"Let everyone be on guard against his neighbor, And do not trust any brother; Because every brother deals craftily, And every neighbor goes about as a slanderer.
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| 9:5 |
"And everyone deceives his neighbor, And does not speak the truth, They have taught their tongue to speak lies; They weary themselves committing iniquity.
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| 9:6 |
"Your dwelling is in the midst of deceit; Through deceit they refuse to know Me," declares the LORD.
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| 9:7 |
Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, "Behold, I will refine them and assay them; For what [else] can I do, because of the daughter of My people?
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| 9:8 |
"Their tongue is a deadly arrow; It speaks deceit; With his mouth one speaks peace to his neighbor, But inwardly he sets an ambush for him.
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| 9:9 |
"Shall I not punish them for these things?" declares the LORD. "On a nation such as this Shall I not avenge Myself?
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| 9:10 |
"For the mountains I will take up a weeping and wailing, And for the pastures of the wilderness a dirge, Because they are laid waste, so that no one passes through, And the lowing of the cattle is not heard; Both the birds of the sky and the beasts have fled; they are gone.
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| 9:11 |
"And I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, A haunt of jackals; And I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant."
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| 9:12 |
Who is the wise man that may understand this? And [who is] he to whom the mouth of the LORD has spoken, that he may declare it? Why is the land ruined, laid waste like a desert, so that no one passes through?
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| 9:13 |
And the LORD said, "Because they have forsaken My law which I set before them, and have not obeyed My voice nor walked according to it,
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| 9:14 |
but have walked after the stubbornness of their heart and after the Baals, as their fathers taught them,"
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| 9:15 |
therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, "behold, I will feed them, this people, with wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink.
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| 9:16 |
"And 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 annihilated them."
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| 9:17 |
Thus says the LORD of hosts, "Consider and call for the mourning women, that they may come; And send for the wailing women, that they may come!
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| 9:18 |
"And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, That our eyes may shed tears, And our eyelids flow with water.
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| 9:19 |
"For a voice of wailing is heard from Zion, 'How are we ruined! We are put to great shame, For we have left the land, Because they have cast down our dwellings.'"
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| 9:20 |
Now hear the word of the LORD, O you women, And let your ear receive the word of His mouth; Teach your daughters wailing, And everyone her neighbor a dirge.
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| 9:21 |
For death has come up through our windows; It has entered our palaces To cut off the children from the streets, The young men from the town squares.
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| 9:22 |
Speak, "Thus declares the LORD, 'The corpses of men will fall like dung on the open field, And like the sheaf after the reaper, But no one will gather [them].'"
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| 9:23 |
Thus says the LORD, "Let not a wise man boast of his wisdom, and let not the mighty man boast of his might, let not a rich man boast of his riches;
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| 9:24 |
but let him who boasts boast of this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the LORD who exercises lovingkindness, justice, and righteousness on earth; for I delight in these things," declares the LORD.
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| 9:25 |
"Behold, the days are coming," declares the LORD, "that I will punish all who are circumcised and yet uncircumcised--
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| 9:26 |
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."
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