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Jeremiah 9

9 I wish that my head was a spring of water, and that my eyes were a fountain producing tears.

Then I would cry day and night for all of my people who have been killed by our enemies.

2 I wish that I could leave my people and go and live in a traveler’s lodging place in the desert so that I could forget them.

I want to do this because none of them have remained faithful to Yahweh; they are a company of people who deceive others.

3 Yahweh says, “They bend their tongues to tell lies like people bend bows to shoot arrows.

They do not ensure that dealings are truthful in their land. They go about doing one wicked thing after another and they do not know me.”

4 Nobody trust your neighbors or even your brothers,

because surely every brother lies and every neighbor slanders others.

5 They deceive their friends and do not tell the truth.

They have taught themselves to be skillful liars; they wear themselves out with their frequent sinning.

6 Jeremiah, everyone living around you is a deceiver. By deceiving themselves they refuse to obey me.

7 Therefore, Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, says this:

“Listen carefully to what I say: I will test my people, like a metalworker puts metal in a hot fire to completely burn out the impure bits.

For there is nothing else that I can do because of all the evil things that my people have done.

8 The deceitful things they say harm people like poisoned arrows do.

They say to their neighbors, ‘I hope things will go well for you,’ while they are planning to kill them.

9 I should surely punish them for doing those things!

Yes, I should certainly get revenge on the people of a nation that does things like that!”

10 So, I will weep and wail for the mountains and lament for the places where the livestock eat the grass,

because those areas will be scorched so that no one will travel through them.

There will be no cattle there,

and all the birds and wild animals will have fled to other places.

11 Yahweh says, “I will cause Jerusalem to become a heap of ruins,

and jackals will live there.

I will destroy the cities of Judah, with the result that they will be completely deserted;

no one will live there.”

12 I said, “Only people who are very wise can understand these things.

Only those who have been taught by Yahweh can explain these things to others.

The wise people are the only ones who can explain why the land will be completely ruined

with the result that everyone will be afraid to travel through it.”

13 Yahweh replied, “These things will happen because my people have rejected my laws which I gave to them; they have not paid attention to my instructions or lived according to them. 14 Instead, they have stubbornly done the things that they wanted to do. They have worshiped the idols that represent the god Baal, which is what their ancestors did. 15 So now listen to what I, Yahweh, the commander of the angel armies, the God of the Israelites, say: What I will do will be like giving these people bitter things to eat and poison water to drink: 16 I will scatter them to nations which neither they nor their ancestors have known. I will enable their enemies to strike them with swords until I have destroyed them.”

17 This is what Yahweh, the commander of the angel armies, says:

“Think about what is happening,

then summon those women who mourn when someone has died so that they may come.

18 Tell them to come quickly and start to wail for us,

with the result that tears will stream down from your eyes.

19 Listen to the people of Jerusalem lamenting, saying,

‘We have experienced a terrible disaster!

Now we are very ashamed,

because our enemies have forced us to leave our land and because they have destroyed our houses.’ ”

20 I, Jeremiah, said: “You women, listen to what Yahweh says.

Pay attention to his words.

Teach your daughters to wail.

Teach each other a funeral song.

21 Do that because people will be dying in your houses and in palaces,

with the result that there will be no more children playing in the streets,

and no more young men gathering in the city squares.

22 Yahweh told me to say this: “This is what Yahweh says, “there will be corpses scattered across the fields like dung;

their dead bodies will lie there like fresh cut grain that has been cut by harvesters but not yet gathered,

so there will be no one still alive to bury them.’ ”

23 Yahweh says this:

“Wise men should not boast about their being wise,

strong men should not boast about their being strong;

and rich men should not boast about their being rich.

24 Instead, those who want to boast should boast about their knowing me

and about understanding that I am Yahweh,

who faithfully loves people,

and that I do what is just and righteous in the earth,

because I delight in these things.

25-26 25-26There will be a time when I will punish all those people of Egypt, Judah, Edom, Moab, and the descendants of Ammon, all those people who cut their hair short to please their gods who live in the desert, all those who have changed their bodies by circumcising them but who have not changed their inner beings. I will also punish the people of Israel because they have not changed their inner beings.”