Jeremiah 9 KJV
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Oh 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! Prophecies of Jeremiah
Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they [be] all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men. Prophecies of Jeremiah
And they bend their tongues [like] their bow [for] lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD. Prophecies of Jeremiah God
Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders. Prophecies of Jeremiah
And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, [and] weary themselves to commit iniquity. Prophecies of Jeremiah
Thine habitation [is] in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD. Prophecies of Jeremiah God
Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people? Prophecies of Jeremiah God
Their tongue [is as] an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: [one] speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait. Prophecies of Jeremiah
¶ Shall I not visit them for these [things]? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? Prophecies of Jeremiah God
For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through [them;] neither can [men] hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone. Prophecies of Jeremiah
And I will make Jerusalem heaps, [and] a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant. Prophecies of Jeremiah Judah Jerusalem
¶ Who [is] the wise man, that may understand this? and [who is he] to whom the mouth of the LORD hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perisheth [and] is burned up like a wilderness, that none passeth through? Prophecies of Jeremiah God
And the LORD saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein; Prophecies of Jeremiah God
But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them: Prophecies of Jeremiah
Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, [even] this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink. Prophecies of Jeremiah God Jacob
I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them. Prophecies of Jeremiah
¶ Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning [women], that they may come: Prophecies of Jeremiah God
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. Prophecies of Jeremiah
For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast [us] out. Prophecies of Jeremiah Jerusalem Zion
Yet hear the word of the LORD, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbour lamentation. Prophecies of Jeremiah God
For death is come up into our windows, [and] is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, [and] the young men from the streets. Prophecies of Jeremiah
Speak, Thus saith the LORD, Even the carcases of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman, and none shall gather [them]. Prophecies of Jeremiah God
¶ Thus saith 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: Prophecies of Jeremiah God
But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I [am] the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these [things] I delight, saith the LORD. Prophecies of Jeremiah God
¶ Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will punish all [them which are] circumcised with the uncircumcised; Prophecies of Jeremiah God
Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all [that are] in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all [these] nations [are] uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel [are] uncircumcised in the heart. Prophecies of Jeremiah Judah Jacob Ben-ammi Esau Moab Ammon Edom Egypt Moab Rabbah