Oh 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!
2
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 are all adulterers,
an assembly of treacherous men.
3
โThey 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 donโt know me,โ says Yahweh.
4
โEveryone beware of his neighbor,
and donโt trust in any brother;
for every brother will utterly supplant,
and every neighbor will go around with slanders.
5
Everyone will deceive their neighbors,
and will not speak the truth.
They have taught their tongue to speak lies.
They weary themselves commiting iniquity.
6
Your habitation is in the middle of deceit.
Through deceit, they refuse to know me,โ says Yahweh.
7
Therefore Yahweh of Armies says,
โBehold, I will melt them and test them;
for how should I deal with the daughter of my people?
8
Their 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.
9
Shouldnโt I punish them for these things?โ says Yahweh.
โShouldnโt my soul be avenged on a nation such as this?
10
I 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 canโt hear the voice of the livestock.
Both the birds of the sky and the animals have fled.
They are gone.
11
โI will make Jerusalem heaps,
a dwelling place of jackals.
I will make the cities of Judah a desolation,
without inhabitant.โ
12
Who 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?
13
Yahweh says, โBecause they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein,
14
but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart, and after the Baals, which their fathers taught them.โ
15
Therefore Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says, โBehold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.
16
I will scatter them also among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known; and I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them.โ
17
Yahweh of Armies says,
โConsider, and call for the mourning women, that they may come;
and send for the skillful women, that they may come.
18
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.
19
For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion,
โHow we are ruined!
We are greatly confounded,
because we have forsaken the land,
because they have cast down our dwellings.โโ
20
Yet hear Yahwehโs word, you women.
Let your ear receive the word of his mouth.
Teach your daughters wailing,
and everyone her neighbor lamentation.
21
For 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.
22
Speak, โYahweh says,
โโThe dead bodies of men will fall as dung on the open field,
and as the handful after the harvester;
and no one will gather them.โโ
23
Yahweh says,
โDonโt let the wise man glory in his wisdom.
Donโt let the mighty man glory in his might.
Donโt let the rich man glory in his riches.
24
But 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,โ says Yahweh.
25
โBehold, the days come,โ says Yahweh, โthat I will punish all those who are circumcised only in their flesh:
26
Egypt, 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.โ
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