Jeremiah 9

CLV(i) 1 Who does make my head waters, And mine eye a fountain of tears? And I weep by day and by night, For the wounded of the daughter of my people." 2 Who does give me in a wilderness A lodging-place of travellers? And I leave my people, and go from them, For all of them [are] adulterers, An assembly of treacherous ones." 3 And they bend their tongue, their bow [is] a lie, And not for stedfastness have they been mighty in the land, For from evil unto evil they have gone forth, And Me they have not known, An affirmation of Yahweh!" 4 Each of his friend--beware you, And on any brother, do not trust, For every brother does utterly supplant, For every friend slanderously does walk, 5 And each at his friend they mock, And truth they do not speak, They taught their tongue to speak falsehood, To commit iniquity they have labored." 6 your dwelling [is] in the midst of deceit, Through deceit they refused to know Me, An affirmation of Yahweh." 7 Therefore, thus said Yahweh of Hosts:Lo, I am refining them, and have tried them, For how do I do because of the daughter of My people? 8 A slaughtering arrow [is] their tongue, Deceit it has spoken in its mouth, Peace with its neighbor it speaks, And in its heart it lays its ambush, 9 For these things do not I see after them? An affirmation of Yahweh, Against a nation such as this does not My soul avenge itself? 10 For the mountains I lift up weeping and wailing, And for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, For they have been burnt up without any passing over, Nor have they heard the voice of cattle, From the fowl of the heavens unto the beast they have fled, they have gone." 11 And I make Jerusalem become heaps, A habitation of dragons, And the cities of Judah I make a desolation, Without inhabitant." 12 Who [is] the wise man? and he understands this, And he to whom the mouth of Yahweh spoke? And he does declare it, For what has the land perished? It has been burnt up as a wilderness, Without any passing through." 13 And Yahweh said:Because of their forsaking My law that I set before them, And they have not hearkened to My voice nor walked in it, 14 And they walk after the stubbornness of their heart, And after the Baalim, that their fathers taught them, 15 Therefore, thus said Yahweh of Hosts, Elohim of Israel:Lo, I am causing them--this people--to eat wormwood, And I have caused them to drink water of gall, 16 And I have scattered them among nations Which they knew not, they and their fathers, And have sent after them the sword, Till I have consumed them." 17 Thus said Yahweh of Hosts:Consider you, and call for mourning women, And they come, And to the wise women send, and they come, 18 And they hasten, and lift up for us a wailing. And run down our eyes do tears, And from our eyelids do waters flow." 19 For--a voice of wailing is heard from Zion:How have we been spoiled! We have been greatly ashamed, Because we have forsaken the land, Because they have cast down our tabernacles." 20 But hear, you women, a word of Yahweh, And your ear receives a word of His mouth, And teach you your daughters wailing, and each her neighbor lamentation." 21 For death has come up into our windows, It has come into our palaces, To cut off the suckling from without, Young men from the broad places." 22 Speak thus--an affirmation of Yahweh, And fallen has the carcase of man, As dung on the face of the field, And as a handful after the reaper, And there is none gathering." 23 Thus said Yahweh:Let not the wise boast himself in his wisdom, Nor let the mighty boast himself in his might, Let not the rich boast himself in his riches, 24 But--in this let the boaster boast himself, In understanding and knowing Me, For I [am] Yahweh, doing kindness, Judgment, and righteousness, in the earth, For in these I have delighted, An affirmation of Yahweh." 25 Lo, days are coming--an affirmation of Yahweh, And I have laid a charge on all circumcised in the foreskin, 26 On Egypt, and on Judah, and on Edom, And on the sons of Ammon, and on Moab, And on all cutting the corner [of the beard], Who are dwelling in the wilderness, For all the nations [are] uncircumcised, And all the house of Israel [are] uncircumcised in heart!"