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Jeremiah 9

26 verses · King James Version

  1. 1Oh 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!Compare translations of Jeremiah 9:1
  2. 2Oh 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.Compare translations of Jeremiah 9:2
  3. 3And 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.Compare translations of Jeremiah 9:3
  4. 4Take 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.Compare translations of Jeremiah 9:4
  5. 5And 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.Compare translations of Jeremiah 9:5
  6. 6Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD.Compare translations of Jeremiah 9:6
  7. 7Therefore 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?Compare translations of Jeremiah 9:7
  8. 8Their 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.Compare translations of Jeremiah 9:8
  9. 9Shall I not visit them for these things? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?Compare translations of Jeremiah 9:9
  10. 10For 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.Compare translations of Jeremiah 9:10
  11. 11And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.Compare translations of Jeremiah 9:11
  12. 12Who 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?Compare translations of Jeremiah 9:12
  13. 13And the LORD saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein;Compare translations of Jeremiah 9:13
  14. 14But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:Compare translations of Jeremiah 9:14
  15. 15Therefore 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.Compare translations of Jeremiah 9:15
  16. 16I 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.Compare translations of Jeremiah 9:16
  17. 17Thus 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:Compare translations of Jeremiah 9:17
  18. 18And 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.Compare translations of Jeremiah 9:18
  19. 19For 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.Compare translations of Jeremiah 9:19
  20. 20Yet 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.Compare translations of Jeremiah 9:20
  21. 21For 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.Compare translations of Jeremiah 9:21
  22. 22Speak, 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.Compare translations of Jeremiah 9:22
  23. 23Thus 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:Compare translations of Jeremiah 9:23
  24. 24But 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.Compare translations of Jeremiah 9:24
  25. 25Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will punish all them which are circumcised with the uncircumcised;Compare translations of Jeremiah 9:25
  26. 26Egypt, 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.Compare translations of Jeremiah 9:26