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9 If only my head was water, and my eyes were a fountain of tears,
→ then I’d weep day and night for my people’s slain daughter.
2 Who will give me a lodging place for travellers in the desert?
Then I would leave my people and walk away from them,
because all of them are adulterers—
≈ a treacherous group of people.
3 They bend their tongues like bows—
chasing lies rather than faithfulness.
They grow strong in the land
because they go from evil to evil and they don’t know me.
That’s Yahweh’s declaration.
4 Let each person beware of his neighbour,
≈ and don’t rely on any relative,
because brothers consistently betray,
≈ and neighbours go around slandering.
5 Every one will deceive their neighbour,
≈ and they won’t tell the truth—
≈ they teach their tongues to tell lies.
→ They wear themselves out being disobedient.
6 Your residence is in the middle of deceit—
because of deceit they refuse to know me.
That’s Yahweh’s declaration.
7 Because of that, Commander-in-chief Yahweh says,
I’m about to refine them and test them,
because how else should I act towards my people’s daughter.
8 Their tongue is a deadly arrow—
it speaks out deceit.
With his mouth, a man speaks peace with his neighbours,
while in his mind, he’s planning his ambush.
9 Shouldn’t I punish them for those things? Yahweh says.
≈ Shouldn’t I avenge myself against a nation like that?
10 On the mountains I’ll take up weeping and wailing,
≈ and a funeral song out in the wilderness pastures,
because they’re left desolate as no one passes through there.
They don’t hear the sound of cattle or birds or wild animals—
they’ve fled and gone away.
11 Then I’ll make Yerushalem (Jerusalem) into piles of ruins—
a place for jackals to live in—
and I’ll make Yehudah’s (Judah’s) cities into uninhabited wastelands.
12 Who is the person that’s wise and understands this?
Who has Yahweh’s mouth spoken to so that they can declare it—
concerning why the nation has perished and been destroyed
like the wilderness with no one passing through it?
13 Then Yahweh said, “Because they abandoned my instructions that I gave to them,
≈ and they don’t listen to my voice or follow what say,
14 and they’re guided by their own stubborn minds,
≈ and follow after the Baal that their ancestors taught them about,
15 then Commander-in-chief Yahweh says this:
Listen, I’m about to feed them bitter food
≈ and give them poison water to drink.
16 Then I’ll scatter them among nations that neither they nor their ancestors knew anything about,
and I’ll send an army after them until I’ve finished them off.
17 Commander-in-chief Yahweh says this:
Consider that and summon funeral wailers to come—
≈ get the most skillful women to come.
18 Let them hurry and start wailing about us,
→ so our eyes have tears running down them,
≈ and our eyelids flow with water,
19 because the sound of mourning can be heard from Tsiyyon (Zion):
‘We’ve been so devastated.
We’re terribly ashamed, because we’ve left the land
because they tore down our houses.’
20 So now hear Yahweh’s message, you women.
≈ Let your ear receive the message from his mouth,
and teach your daughters a mourning song,
≈ and each woman teach her neighbour a funeral song,
21 because death has come up into our windows.
≈ It enters into our fortresses,
cutting off children from the street
≈ and young men from the open plazas.
22 Yahweh says to pass this on:
Human corpses will fall like dung across the ground’s surface
and like fallen grain after the harvesters have finished,
and there’s no one to collect them.
Don’t let the wise person boast about their wisdom,
≈ and don’t let the warrior boast about his strength.
≈ Don’t let the rich person boast about their riches,
24 because if they want to boast, let them boast about this:
Understanding and knowing me because I’m Yahweh,
demonstrating loyal commitment, justice, and righteousness on the earth
because I take pleasure in those things.[ref]
That is Yahweh’s declaration.
25 Listen, Yahweh declares that there’s a time coming
when I will punish all those who’ve been physically circumcised:
26 the Egyptians, Judeans, Edomites, Ammonites, and Moabites,
and all those who trim the corners of their beards, those living in the wilderness,
because all the uncircumcised nations and all the Israelis have uncircumcised hearts.
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