Jeremiah 9

1Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a spring of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!Cross-references: Ps 42:3 · Ps 119:136 · Isa 16:9 · Isa 22:4 · Jer 4:19 · Jer 6:26 · +7 more

2Oh that I had in the wilderness 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.Cross-references: Ps 55:6 · Ps 120:5 · Jer 5:7 · Jer 12:1 · Jer 12:6 · Jer 23:10 · +9 more

3“They bend their tongue, as their bow, for falsehood. They have grown strong in the land, but not for truth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don’t know me,” says Yahweh.Cross-references: Judg 2:10 · 1Sam 2:12 · Ps 52:2 · Ps 64:3 · Ps 120:2 · Isa 59:3 · +21 more

4“Everyone beware of his neighbor, and don’t trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go around like a slanderer.Cross-references: Gen 27:35 · Gen 32:28 · Lev 19:16 · Ps 12:2 · Ps 15:3 · Ps 55:11 · +15 more

5Friends deceive each other, and will not speak the truth. They have taught their tongue to speak lies. They weary themselves committing iniquity.Cross-references: Gen 19:11 · Job 11:3 · Job 15:5 · Ps 7:14 · Ps 50:19 · Ps 64:3 · +15 more

6Your habitation is in the middle of deceit. Through deceit, they refuse to know me,” says Yahweh.Cross-references: Job 21:14 · Ps 120:2 · Prov 1:24 · Prov 1:29 · Jer 5:27 · Jer 8:5 · +8 more

7Therefore Yahweh of Armies says, “Behold, I will melt them and test them; for how should I deal with the daughter of my people?Cross-references: 2Chr 36:15 · Isa 1:25 · Isa 48:10 · Jer 6:27 · Jer 6:29 · Jer 31:20 · +9 more

8Their tongue is a deadly arrow. It speaks deceit. One speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart, he waits to ambush him.Cross-references: 2Sam 3:27 · 2Sam 20:9 · Ps 12:2 · Ps 28:3 · Ps 55:21 · Ps 57:4 · +8 more

9Shouldn’t I punish them for these things?” says Yahweh. “Shouldn’t my soul be avenged on a nation such as this?Cross-references: Isa 1:24 · Jer 5:9 · Jer 5:29

10I will weep and wail for the mountains, and lament for the pastures of the wilderness, because they are burned up, so that no one passes through; Men can’t hear the voice of the livestock. Both the birds of the sky and the animals have fled. They are gone.Cross-references: Isa 49:19 · Jer 2:6 · Jer 4:19 · Jer 7:29 · Jer 8:18 · Jer 12:4 · +11 more

11“I will make Jerusalem heaps, a dwelling place of jackals. I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”Cross-references: Neh 4:2 · Ps 79:1 · Isa 13:22 · Isa 25:2 · Isa 34:13 · Isa 44:26 · +14 more

12Who is wise enough to understand this? Who is he to whom the mouth of Yahweh has spoken, that he may declare it? Why has the land perished and burned up like a wilderness, so that no one passes through?Cross-references: Deut 29:22 · Deut 32:29 · 1Ki 9:8 · Ps 107:34 · Ps 107:43 · Jer 5:19 · +7 more

13Yahweh says, “Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice or walked in my ways,Cross-references: Deut 31:16 · 2Chr 7:19 · Ezra 9:10 · Ps 89:30 · Ps 119:53 · Prov 28:4 · +2 more

14but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart and after the Baals, which their fathers taught them.”Cross-references: Gen 6:5 · Jer 2:8 · Jer 2:23 · Jer 3:17 · Jer 7:24 · Jer 44:17 · +6 more

15Therefore Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says, “Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink.Cross-references: Deut 29:18 · Ps 60:3 · Ps 69:21 · Ps 75:8 · Ps 80:5 · Isa 2:17 · +7 more

16I will scatter them also among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known. I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them.”Cross-references: Lev 26:33 · Deut 4:27 · Deut 28:25 · Deut 28:36 · Deut 28:64 · Deut 32:26 · +17 more

17Yahweh of Armies says, “Consider, and call for the mourning women, that they may come. Send for the skillful women, that they may come.Cross-references: 2Chr 35:25 · Job 3:8 · Eccl 12:5 · Amos 5:16 · Matt 9:23 · Mark 5:38

18Let 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.Cross-references: Isa 22:4 · Jer 6:26 · Jer 9:1 · Jer 9:10 · Jer 9:20 · Jer 13:17 · +5 more

19For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, ‘How we are ruined! We are greatly confounded because we have forsaken the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.’”Cross-references: Lev 18:25 · Lev 18:28 · Lev 20:22 · Deut 28:29 · Jer 2:14 · Jer 4:13 · +8 more

20Yet hear Yahweh’s word, you women. Let your ear receive the word of his mouth. Teach your daughters wailing. Everyone teach her neighbor a lamentation.Cross-references: Job 22:22 · Isa 3:4 · Isa 3:16 · Isa 32:9 · Jer 9:17 · Luke 23:27

21For death has come up into our windows. It has entered into our palaces to cut off the children from outside, and the young men from the streets.Cross-references: 2Chr 36:17 · Jer 6:11 · Jer 15:7 · Ezek 9:5 · Ezek 21:14 · Amos 6:10

22Speak, “Yahweh says, “‘The dead bodies of men will fall as dung on the open field, and as the handful after the harvester. No one will gather them.’”Cross-references: 2Ki 9:37 · Ps 83:10 · Isa 5:25 · Jer 7:33 · Jer 8:2 · Jer 16:4 · +2 more

23Yahweh says, “Don’t let the wise man glory in his wisdom. Don’t let the mighty man glory in his might. Don’t let the rich man glory in his riches.Cross-references: Deut 8:17 · 1Sam 17:4 · 1Sam 17:42 · 1Ki 20:10 · Job 5:12 · Job 31:24 · +31 more

24But let him who glories glory in this, that he has understanding, and knows me, that I am Yahweh who exercises loving kindness, justice, and righteousness in the earth, for I delight in these things,” says Yahweh.Cross-references: Ex 34:5 · 1Sam 15:22 · Ps 36:5 · Ps 44:8 · Ps 51:1 · Ps 91:14 · +21 more

25“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will punish all those who are circumcised only in their flesh:Cross-references: Ezek 28:10 · Ezek 32:19 · Amos 3:2 · Rom 2:8 · Rom 2:25 · Gal 5:2

26Egypt, Judah, Edom, the children of Ammon, Moab, and all who have the corners of their hair cut off, who dwell in the wilderness, for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart.”Cross-references: Lev 26:41 · Deut 30:6 · Isa 13:1 · Isa 19:24 · Jer 4:4 · Jer 25:9 · +10 more