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But in his heart he lies in wait.
OCTOBER 12 9 Shall I not punish them for these
things?” says the LORD.
“Shall I not avenge Myself on such a
Jeremiah 9:1–10:25 nation as this?”
9 Oh, that my head were waters, 10 I will take up a weeping and wailing for
the mountains,
And my eyes a fountain of tears,
That I might weep day and night And for the dwelling places of the
For the slain of the daughter of my wilderness a lamentation,
people! Because they are burned up,
So that no one can pass through;
Nor can men hear the voice of the
cattle.
Both the birds of the heavens and the
9:1 waters,…tears. Jeremiah cared so greatly beasts have fled;
that he longed for the relief of flooding tears They are gone.
or a place of retreat to be free of the burden of
Judah’s sins for a while. 11 “I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins,
a den of jackals.
I will make the cities of Judah desolate,
without an inhabitant.”
2 Oh, that I had in the wilderness
A lodging place for travelers; 12 Who is the wise man who may understand
That I might leave my people, this? And who is he to whom the mouth of the
And go from them! LORD has spoken, that he may declare it? Why
For they are all adulterers, does the land perish and burn up like a wilder-
An assembly of treacherous men. ness, so that no one can pass through?
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“And like their bow they have bent their
3 And the LORD said, “Because they have for-
tongues for lies. saken My law which I set before them, and
They are not valiant for the truth on have not obeyed My voice, nor walked accord-
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the earth. ing to it, but they have walked according to
For they proceed from evil to evil, the dictates of their own hearts and after the
And they do not know Me,” says the Baals, which their fathers taught them,”
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LORD. therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, the
4 God of Israel: “Behold, I will feed them, this
“Everyone take heed to his neighbor,
And do not trust any brother; people, with wormwood, and give them water
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For every brother will utterly supplant, of gall to drink. I will scatter them also among
And every neighbor will walk with the Gentiles, whom neither they nor their
slanderers. fathers have known. And I will send a sword
5 after them until I have consumed them.”
Everyone will deceive his neighbor,
And will not speak the truth; 17 Thus says the LORD of hosts:
They have taught their tongue to speak
lies; “Consider and call for the mourning
They weary themselves to commit women,
iniquity. That they may come;
6 And send for skillful wailing women,
Your dwelling place is in the midst of
deceit; That they may come.
Through deceit they refuse to know 18 Let them make haste
Me,” says the LORD. And take up a wailing for us,
That our eyes may run with tears,
Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts:
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And our eyelids gush with water.
“Behold, I will refine them and try them; 19 For a voice of wailing is heard from
For how shall I deal with the daughter Zion:
of My people? ‘How we are plundered!
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Their tongue is an arrow shot out; We are greatly ashamed,
It speaks deceit; Because we have forsaken the land,
One speaks peaceably to his neighbor Because we have been cast out of our
with his mouth, dwellings.’ ”
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