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Jeremiah 9
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| 9:1
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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| 9:2
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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| 9:4
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. |
 (9:4-6) Don't trust anyone. Not even your family, friends, or neighbors. Those
who believe differently than you are all liars and evil doers.
(9:4) "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."
(9:5) "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."
(9:6) "Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit."
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| 9:5
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.
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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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| 9:8
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.
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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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| 9:11
And I will make
Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of
Judah desolate, without an inhabitant. |
 (9:11) "I will make
Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of
Judah desolate, without an inhabitant."
God will make Jerusalem an uninhabited "den of dragons."
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| 9:12
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?
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| 9:13
And the LORD saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before
them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein; |
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But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after
Baalim, which their fathers taught them: |
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| 9:15
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. |
(9:15-16) God will give the people bad food and water, and then kill them with
a sword.
(9:15) "I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink."
(9:16) "And I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them."
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| 9:16
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.
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| 9:17
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:
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| 9:18
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. |
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| 9:19
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. |
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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
neighbour lamentation. |
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| 9:21
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. |
(9:21-22)
God will kill children and young men, and the dead bodies "shall fall as dung .... and none shall
gather them."
(9:21) "For death is come ... to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets."
(9:22) "The carcases of men shall fall as dung upon the open field ... and none shall gather them."
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| 9:22
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.
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| 9:23
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:
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| 9:24
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. |
(9:25) "Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will punish all them
which are circumcised with the
uncircumcised."
I guess that'd include just about everyone -- well, all the men anyway.
 (9:26)
"All the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart."
Don't just circumcise your penis. Circumcise you heart as well.
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| 9:25
Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that
I will punish all them which
are circumcised with the uncircumcised;
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| 9:26
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.
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