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Moff by section JER 9:1

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Jeremiah 9

Oh that my head were waters, mine eyes a fount of tears,

that I might weep all day and night

for the slain of my poor people!

Oh that I were in the wolds

at a khan for wayfarers!

For fain would I forsake my people

and be quit of them!

They are adulterers, all of them,

a gang of faithless men;

they ply their tongues

like bows, for slander;

they are a power for dishonesty,

not for honesty, in the land.

They pass from one crime to another,

“ignoring me,” says the Eternal.

Beware of your neighbours,

let no one trust his brother;

for a brother will cheat like a Jacob,

and a neighbour will be slandering;

each deceives the other,

no one tells the truth,

they train themselves to lie,

these knaves and fools,

they oppress and oppress,

they deceive and deceive,

and-—“they choose to ignore me,”

says the Eternal.

“Therefore”--the Lord of hosts declares--

“I must test them in the melting-pot;

for how can I overlook

my people’s crimes?

Their tongues are deadly arrows,

with their treacherous talk;

a man speaks to his neighbour peaceably,

and secretly he plots against him.

Must I not punish them for that?”

the Eternal asks;

“shall I not make such people

pay for that?

Raise a lament for the mountains,

a dirge for the downs,

wasted and emptied of men;

no lowing of cattle in them--

all creatures have fled and gone,

both bird and beast;

and Jerusalem I will turn into a heap of ruins,

a mere haunt of jackals;

the townships of Judah I will lay bare,

till none dwells there.”

[[Who is wise enough to understand this?

Who is in the Eternal’s confidence to know

why the country is so ruined,

like a desert waste untravelled?

“Because they have forsaken

the law I put before them,

and disobeyed my orders,

and not lived as I told them;

because they followed their own stubborn minds,

and Baals, as their fathers taught them; 15 therefore,” says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel,

“I will feed this people with bitter wormwood

and give them poisonous drugs,

I will scatter them among nations

unknown to them and their fathers,

and after them I send the sword,

till I have done away with them.”]]

Listen, call the mourning women,

call them to come!

Send for those well-skilled in dirges,

call them quick to come!--

to raise a coronach over us,

till our own eyes run down with tears,

and floods gush from our eyelids.

Yet listen to the Eternal, O ye women,

let your ears take in his words,

ere you teach your daughters a lament,

or a dirge to your fellows;

listen to this wail from Sion--

“What ruin, what dishonour!

forced to leave our country,

forced away from home!

Death has climbed in at our windows,

made his way into our halls,

Death cuts down children in the street,

and young men in the square;

dead bodies drop like dung

over the country,

like wisps behind a reaper,

never lifted.” * * *

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