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← Jeremiah Jer 9 →
[1]Oh that I were in the wilderness, in a lodging-place of wayfaring men, that I might leave my people, and go from them! For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men. [2]And they bend their tongue, their bow of falsehood; and they are grown mighty in the land, but not for truth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and Me they know not, saith ‏𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇‎. [3]Take ye heed every one o neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother; for every brother acteth subtly, and every neighbour goeth about with slanders. [4]And they deceive every one his neighbour, and truth they speak not; they have taught their tongue to speak lies, they weary themselves to commit iniquity. [5]Thy habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know Me, saith ‏𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇‎. [6]Therefore thus saith ‏𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇‎ of hosts: behold, I will smelt them, and try them; for how else should I do, because of the daughter of My people? [7]Their tongue is a sharpened arrow, it speaketh deceit; one speaketh peaceably to h neighbour with his mouth, but in his heart he layeth wait for him. [8]Shall I not punish them for thes things? saith ‏𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇‎; shall not My soul be avenged on such a nation as this? [9]For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the pastures of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none passeth through. And they hear not the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled, and gone. [10]And I will make Jerusalem heaps, a lair of jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without an inhabitant. [11]Who is the wise man, that he may understand this? And who is he to whom the mouth of ‏𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇‎ hath spoken, that he may declare it? Wherefore is the land perished and laid waste like a wilderness, so that none passeth through? [12]And ‏𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇‎ saith: Because they have forsaken My law which I set before them, and have not hearkened to My voice, neither walked therein; [13]But have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart, and after the Baalim, which their fathers taught them. [14]Therefore thus saith ‏𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇‎ of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink. [15]I will scatter them also among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them. [16]Thus saith ‏𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇‎ of hosts: Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for the wise women, that they may come; [17]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. [18]For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion: 'How are we undone! We are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out.' [19]Yea, hear the word of ‏𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇‎, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of His mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbour lamentation: [20]'For death is come up into our windows, it is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from the street, and the young men from the broad places.— [21]Speak: Thus saith ‏𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇‎—And the carcasses of men fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman, which none gathereth.' [22]Thus saith ‏𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇‎: Let not the wise man glory in h wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches; [23]But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth, and knoweth Me, that I am ‏𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇‎ who exercise mercy, justice, and righteousness, in the earth; for in these things I delight, saith ‏𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇‎. [24]Behold, the days come, saith ‏𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇‎, that I will punish all them that are circumcised in their uncircumcision: [25]Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that have the corners of their hair polled, that dwell in the wilderness; for all the nations are uncircumcised, but all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart.
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Corrected JPS 1917 Translation. Note: This copy obtained from a slightly damaged copy. Some words may be malformed or missing.