Yirmeyahu 9 ירמיהו ט׳

Oh, 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.

And they bend their tongues, their bow of falsehood: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know me not, says the Lord.

Take heed everyone of his neighbour, and trust not in any brother: for every brother acts deceitfully, and every neighbour goes about with slanders.

And they deceive everyone his neighbour, and do not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.

Thy habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, says the Lord.

Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts, Behold, I will smelt them, and try them; for how else shall I do for the daughter of my people?

Their tongue is a sharpened arrow; it speaks deceit: one speaks peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he lies in wait for him.

Shall I not punish them for these things? says the Lord: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

For 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 can pass through them; neither can men hear the sound of the cattle; both the birds of the heavens and the beasts are fled; they are gone.

And I will make Yerushalayim heaps, a den of jackals; and I will make the cities of Yehuda desolate, without inhabitant.

Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of the Lord has spoken, that he may declare it? Why does the land perish, and is burned up like a wilderness, that none passes through?

And the Lord says, Because they have forsaken my Tora which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, nor walked therein;

but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart, and after the Be῾alim, as their fathers taught them:

therefore thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Yisra᾽el; Behold, I will feed them, this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.

I will scatter them also among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them.

Thus says the Lord of hosts, Consider, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for the skilful women, that they may come:

and let 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.

For a voice of wailing is heard out of Żiyyon, How are we ruined! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out.

Yet hear the word of the Lord, O you women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbour lamentation.

For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from the streets and the young men from the broad places.

Speak, Thus says the Lord, And the carcasses of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvester, and none shall gather them.

Thus says the Lord, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches:

but let him that glories glory in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the Lord who exercise faithful love, justice, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, says the Lord.

Behold, days are coming, says the Lord, when I will punish all the circumcised with the uncircumcised;

Miżrayim, and Yehuda, and Edom, and the children of ῾Ammon, and Mo᾽av, and all the desert dwellers that have the corners of their hair cut off; for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Yisra᾽el are uncircumcised in the heart.