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JEREMIAH
9.9
- 17For, behold, I will send serpents, basilisks, among you,
- Which will not be charmed;
- And they shall bite you, saith the Lord.
- 18Though I would take comfort against sorrow,
- My heart is faint within me.
- 19Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people
- From a land far off:
- 'Is not the Lord in Zion?
- Is not her King in her?'—
- 'Why have they provoked Me with their graven images,
- And with strange vanities?'—
- 20'The harvest is past, the summer is ended,
- And we are not saved.'
- 21For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I seized with anguish;
- I am black, appalment hath taken hold on me.
- 22Is there no balm in Gilead?
- Is there no physician there?
- Why then is not the health
- Of the daughter of my people recovered?
- 23Oh 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!
- 9Oh that I were in the wilderness,
- In a lodging-place of wayfaring men,
- That I might leave my people,
- And go from them!
- For they are all adulterers,
- An assembly of treacherous men.
- 2And they bend their tongue, their bow of falsehood;
- And they are grown mighty in the land, but not for truth;
- For they proceed from evil to evil,
- And Me they know not,
- Saith the Lord.
- 3Take ye heed every one of his neighbour,
- And trust ye not in any brother;
- For every brother acteth subtly,
- And every neighbour goeth about with slanders.
- 4And they deceive every one his neighbour,
- And truth they speak not;
- They have taught their tongue to speak lies,
- They weary themselves to commit iniquity.
- 5Thy habitation is in the midst of deceit;
- Through deceit they refuse to know Me,
- Saith the Lord.
- 6Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts:
- Behold, I will smelt them, and try them;
- For how else should I do,
- Because of the daughter of My people?
- 7Their tongue is a sharpened arrow,
- It speaketh deceit;
- One speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth,
- But in his heart he layeth wait for him.
- 8Shall I not punish them for these things?
- Saith the Lord;
- Shall not My soul be avenged
- On such a nation as this?
- 9For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing,
- And for the pastures of the wilderness a lamentation,
- Because they are burned up, so that none passeth through,
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