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Jeremiah 9:1
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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! |
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| Jeremiah 9:2 |
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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. |
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| Jeremiah 9:3 |
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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. |
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| Jeremiah 9:4 |
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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. |
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| Jeremiah 9:5 |
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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. |
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| Jeremiah 9:6 |
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Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit;
through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD. |
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| Jeremiah 9:7 |
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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? |
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| Jeremiah 9:8 |
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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. |
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| Jeremiah 9:9 |
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Shall I not visit them for these things? saith
the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? |
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| Jeremiah 9:10 |
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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. |
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| Jeremiah 9:11 |
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And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of
dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant. |
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| Jeremiah 9:12 |
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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? |
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| Jeremiah 9:13 |
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And the LORD saith, Because they have forsaken
my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein; |
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| Jeremiah 9:14 |
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But have walked after the imagination of their
own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them: |
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| Jeremiah 9:15 |
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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. |
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| Jeremiah 9:16 |
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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. |
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| Jeremiah 9:17 |
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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: |
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| Jeremiah 9:18 |
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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. |
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| Jeremiah 9:19 |
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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. |
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| Jeremiah 9:20 |
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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. |
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| Jeremiah 9:21 |
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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. |
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| Jeremiah 9:22 |
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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. |
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| Jeremiah 9:23 |
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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: |
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| Jeremiah 9:24 |
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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. |
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| Jeremiah 9:25 |
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Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that
I will punish all them which are circumcised with the uncircumcised; |
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| Jeremiah 9:26 |
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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. |
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