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! |
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. |
3 | 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. |
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. |
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. |
6 | Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through
deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD. |
7 | 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? |
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. |
9 | Shall I not visit them for these things? saith the LORD:
shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? |
10 | 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. |
11 |
And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the
cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant. |
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? |
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; |
14 | But have walked after the imagination of their
own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them: |
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. |
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. |
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: |
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. |
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. |
20
| 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. |
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. |
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. |
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: |
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.
1 Cor 1:31
2 Cor 10:17
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25 | Behold, the days come,
saith the LORD, that I will punish all them which are circumcised with the
uncircumcised; |
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. |