Jeremiah 9
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Thine habitation is in the midst
of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD.
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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?
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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.
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Shall I not visit them for these things? saith the LORD: shall not my
soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
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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.
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And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah
desolate, without an inhabitant.
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Ruin and Exile
Threatened |
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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?
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And the LORD saith,
Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have
not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein;
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but have walked after the imagination of
their own heart, and after Ba'alim, which their fathers taught
them:
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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.
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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.
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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:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Speak, Thus saith the LORD, Even the carcasses of men shall fall as dung
upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman, and
none shall gather them.
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The Knowledge of God
Is Man's Glory |
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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:
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but let him that glorieth glory in this,
that he understandeth and knoweth me, 1 Cor. 1.31 · 2 Cor. 10.17 that I am the LORD which exercise
loving-kindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in
these things I delight, saith the LORD.
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Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will punish all them which are circumcised with the uncircumcised;
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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.
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