24_JER_09_01 Oh that my head were waters, And mine eyes A fountain of tears, that I might weep day And night for the slain of the daughter of my people !
24_JER_09_02 Oh that I had in the wilderness A lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, And go from them ! for they [ be] all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
24_JER_09_03 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.
24_JER_09_04 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.
24_JER_09_05 And they will deceive every one his neighbour, And will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, [ And] weary themselves to commit iniquity.
24_JER_09_06 thine habitation [ Is] in the midst of Deceit; through Deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD.
24_JER_09_07 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?
24_JER_09_08 their tongue [ Is as] an arrow shot out; it speaketh Deceit: [ one] speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait.
24_JER_09_09 shall I not visit them for These [ things]? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such A nation as this?
24_JER_09_10 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 are fled; they are gone.
24_JER_09_11 And I will make Jerusalem heaps, [ And] A den of dragons; And I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.
24_JER_09_12 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?
24_JER_09_13 And the LORD saith, because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, And have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein;
24_JER_09_14 but have walked after the imagination of their own heart, And after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:
24_JER_09_15 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.
24_JER_09_16 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.
24_JER_09_17 thus saith the LORD of hosts, consider ye, And call for the mourning women, that they may come; And send for cunning [ women], that they may come:
24_JER_09_18 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.
24_JER_09_19 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 [ us] out.
24_JER_09_20 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.
24_JER_09_21 for death Is come up into our windows, [ And] Is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, [ And] the young men from the streets.
24_JER_09_22 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 [ them].
24_JER_09_23 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:
24_JER_09_24 but let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth And knoweth me, that I [ am] the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, And righteousness, in the earth: for in These [ things] I delight, saith the LORD.
24_JER_09_25 behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will punish all [ them which are] circumcised with the uncircumcised;
24_JER_09_26 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.