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The Prophecy
of Jeremias 9
Who will give water to my head, and a fountain of tears
to my eyes? and I will weep day and night for the slain
of the daughter of my people.
Who will give me in the wilderness a lodging place of
wayfaring men, and I will leave my people, and depart
from them? because they are all adulterers, an assembly
of transgressors.
And they have bent their tongue, as a bow, for lies,
and not for truth: they have strengthened themselves
upon the earth, for they have proceeded from evil to
evil, and me they have not known, saith the Lord.
Let every man take heed of his neighbor, and let his
not trust in any brother of his: for every brother will
utterly supplant, and every friend will walk deceitfully.
And a man shall mock his brother, and they will not
speak the truth: for they have taught their tongue to
speak lies: they have laboured to commit iniquity.
Thy habitation is in the midst of deceit: Through deceit
they have refused to know me, saith the Lord.
Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts: Behold I will
melt, and try them: for what else shall I do before
the daughter of my people?
Their tongue is a piercing arrow, it hath spoken deceit:
with his mouth one speaketh peace with his friend, and
secretly he lieth in wait for him.
Shall I not visit them for these things, saith the Lord?
or shall not my soul be revenged on such a nation?
For the mountains I will take up weeping and lamentation,
and for the beautiful places of the desert, mourning:
because they are burnt up, for that there is not a man
that passeth through them: and they have not heard the
voice of the owner: from the fowl of the air to the
beasts they are gone away and departed.
And I will make Jerusalem to be heaps of sand, and dens
of dragons: and I will make the cities of Juda desolate,
for want of an inhabitant.
Who is the wise man, that may understand this, and to
whom the word of the mouth of the Lord may come that
he may declare this, why the land hath perished, and
is burnt up like a wilderness, which none passeth through?
And the Lord said: Because they have forsaken my law,
which I gave them, and have not heard my voice, and
have not walked in it.
But they have gone after the perverseness of their own
heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught
them.
Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel:
Behold I will feed this people with wormwood, and give
them water of gall to drink.
And I will scatter them among the nations, which they
and their fathers have not known: and I will send the
sword after them till they be consumed.
Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Consider
ye, and call for the mourning women, and let them come:
and send to them that are wise women, and let them make
haste:
Let them hasten and take up a lamentation for us: let
our eyes shed tears, and our eyelids run down with waters.
For a voice of wailing is heard out of Sion: How are
we wasted and greatly confounded? because we have left
the land, because our dwellings are cast down.
Hear therefore, ye women, the word of the Lord: and
let your ears receive the word of his mouth: and teach
your daughters wailing: and every one her neighbor mourning.
For death is come up through our windows, it is entered
into our houses to destroy the children from without,
the young men from the streets.
Speak: Thus saith the Lord: Even the carcass of man
shall fall as dung upon the face of the country, and
as grass behind the back of the mower, and there is
none to gather it.
Thus saith the Lord: Let not the wise man glory in his
wisdom, and let not the strong man glory in his strength,
and let not the rich man glory in his riches:
But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth
and knoweth me, for I am the Lord that exercise mercy,
and judgment, and justice in the earth: for these things
please me, saith the Lord.
Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, and I will visit
upon every one that hath the foreskin circumcised.
Upon Egypt, and upon Juda, and upon Edom, and upon the
children of Ammon, and upon Moab, and upon all that
have their hair polled round, that dwell in the desert:
for all the nations are uncircumcised in the flesh,
but all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the
heart. |
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