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         <div class="label">9</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">In Hebrew texts 9:1 is numbered 8:23, and 9:2-26 is numbered 9:1-25.</span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.9.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Oh, that my head were a spring of water</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.9.1"><span class="content">and my eyes a fountain of tears!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.9.1"><span class="content">I would weep day and night</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.9.1"><span class="content">for the slain of my people.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.9.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.9.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Oh, that I had in the desert</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.9.2"><span class="content">a lodging place for travelers,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.9.2"><span class="content">so that I might leave my people</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.9.2"><span class="content">and go away from them;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.9.2"><span class="content">for they are all adulterers,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.9.2"><span class="content">a crowd of unfaithful people.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.9.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.9.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">&#8220;They make ready their tongue</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.9.3"><span class="content">like a bow, to shoot lies;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.9.3"><span class="content">it is not by truth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.9.3"><span class="content">that they triumph</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:3 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">lies; / they are not valiant for truth</span></span></span><span class="content"> in the land.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.9.3"><span class="content">They go from one sin to another;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.9.3"><span class="content">they do not acknowledge me,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.9.3"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.9.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.9.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;Beware of your friends;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.9.4"><span class="content">do not trust anyone in your clan.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.9.4"><span class="content">For every one of them is a deceiver,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:4 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">a deceiving Jacob</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.9.4"><span class="content">and every friend a slanderer.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.9.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.9.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Friend deceives friend,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.9.5"><span class="content">and no one speaks the truth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.9.5"><span class="content">They have taught their tongues to lie;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.9.5"><span class="content">they weary themselves with sinning.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.9.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.9.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">You</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:6 </span><span class="ft">That is, Jeremiah (the Hebrew is singular)</span></span></span><span class="content"> live in the midst of deception;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.9.6"><span class="content">in their deceit they refuse to acknowledge me,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.9.6"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.9.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.9.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Therefore this is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.9.7"><span class="content">&#8220;See, I will refine and test them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.9.7"><span class="content">for what else can I do</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.9.7"><span class="content">because of the sin of my people?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.9.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.9.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Their tongue is a deadly arrow;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.9.8"><span class="content">it speaks deceitfully.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.9.8"><span class="content">With their mouths they all speak cordially to their neighbors,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.9.8"><span class="content">but in their hearts they set traps for them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.9.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.9.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Should I not punish them for this?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.9.9"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.9.9"><span class="content">&#8220;Should I not avenge myself</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.9.9"><span class="content">on such a nation as this?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.9.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.9.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">I will weep and wail for the mountains</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.9.10"><span class="content">and take up a lament concerning the wilderness grasslands.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.9.10"><span class="content">They are desolate and untraveled,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.9.10"><span class="content">and the lowing of cattle is not heard.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.9.10"><span class="content">The birds have all fled</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.9.10"><span class="content">and the animals are gone.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.9.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.9.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.9.11"><span class="content">a haunt of jackals;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.9.11"><span class="content">and I will lay waste the towns of Judah</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.9.11"><span class="content">so no one can live there.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.9.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.9.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Who is wise enough to understand this? Who has been instructed by the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and can explain it? Why has the land been ruined and laid waste like a desert that no one can cross?</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.9.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.9.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said, &#8220;It is because they have forsaken my law, which I set before them; they have not obeyed me or followed my law. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.9.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Instead, they have followed the stubbornness of their hearts; they have followed the Baals, as their ancestors taught them.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.9.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Therefore this is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty, the God of Israel, says: &#8220;See, I will make this people eat bitter food and drink poisoned water. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.9.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">I will scatter them among nations that neither they nor their ancestors have known, and I will pursue them with the sword until I have made an end of them.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.9.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.9.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.9.17"><span class="content">&#8220;Consider now! Call for the wailing women to come;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.9.17"><span class="content">send for the most skillful of them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.9.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.9.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Let them come quickly</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.9.18"><span class="content">and wail over us</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.9.18"><span class="content">till our eyes overflow with tears</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.9.18"><span class="content">and water streams from our eyelids.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.9.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.9.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The sound of wailing is heard from Zion:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.9.19"><span class="content">&#8216;How ruined we are!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.9.19"><span class="content">How great is our shame!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.9.19"><span class="content">We must leave our land</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.9.19"><span class="content">because our houses are in ruins.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.9.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.9.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Now, you women, hear the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.9.20"><span class="content">open your ears to the words of his mouth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.9.20"><span class="content">Teach your daughters how to wail;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.9.20"><span class="content">teach one another a lament.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.9.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.9.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Death has climbed in through our windows</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.9.21"><span class="content">and has entered our fortresses;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.9.21"><span class="content">it has removed the children from the streets</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.9.21"><span class="content">and the young men from the public squares.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.9.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.9.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Say, &#8220;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> declares:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.9.22"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Dead bodies will lie</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.9.22"><span class="content">like dung on the open field,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.9.22"><span class="content">like cut grain behind the reaper,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.9.22"><span class="content">with no one to gather them.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.9.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.9.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.9.23"><span class="content">&#8220;Let not the wise boast of their wisdom</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.9.23"><span class="content">or the strong boast of their strength</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.9.23"><span class="content">or the rich boast of their riches,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.9.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.9.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">but let the one who boasts boast about this:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.9.24"><span class="content">that they have the understanding to know me,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.9.24"><span class="content">that I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, who exercises kindness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.9.24"><span class="content">justice and righteousness on earth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.9.24"><span class="content">for in these I delight,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.9.24"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.9.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JER.9.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">&#8220;The days are coming,&#8221; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8220;when I will punish all who are circumcised only in the flesh&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JER.9.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Egypt, Judah, Edom, Ammon, Moab and all who live in the wilderness in distant places.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:26 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">wilderness and who clip the hair by their foreheads</span></span></span><span class="content"> For all these nations are really uncircumcised, and even the whole house of Israel is uncircumcised in heart.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch10" data-usfm="JER.10">
         <div class="label">10</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">God and Idols</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.10.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Hear what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says to you, people of Israel. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.10.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.10.2"><span class="content">&#8220;Do not learn the ways of the nations</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.10.2"><span class="content">or be terrified by signs in the heavens,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.10.2"><span class="content">though the nations are terrified by them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.10.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.10.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">For the practices of the peoples are worthless;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.10.3"><span class="content">they cut a tree out of the forest,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.10.3"><span class="content">and a craftsman shapes it with his chisel.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.10.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.10.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">They adorn it with silver and gold;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.10.4"><span class="content">they fasten it with hammer and nails</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.10.4"><span class="content">so it will not totter.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.10.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.10.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Like a scarecrow in a cucumber field,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.10.5"><span class="content">their idols cannot speak;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.10.5"><span class="content">they must be carried</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.10.5"><span class="content">because they cannot walk.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.10.5"><span class="content">Do not fear them;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.10.5"><span class="content">they can do no harm</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.10.5"><span class="content">nor can they do any good.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.10.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.10.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">No one is like you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.10.6"><span class="content">you are great,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.10.6"><span class="content">and your name is mighty in power.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.10.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.10.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Who should not fear you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.10.7"><span class="content">King of the nations?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.10.7"><span class="content">This is your due.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.10.7"><span class="content">Among all the wise leaders of the nations</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.10.7"><span class="content">and in all their kingdoms,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.10.7"><span class="content">there is no one like you.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.10.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.10.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">They are all senseless and foolish;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.10.8"><span class="content">they are taught by worthless wooden idols.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.10.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.10.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Hammered silver is brought from Tarshish</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.10.9"><span class="content">and gold from Uphaz.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.10.9"><span class="content">What the craftsman and goldsmith have made</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.10.9"><span class="content">is then dressed in blue and purple&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.10.9"><span class="content">all made by skilled workers.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.10.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.10.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">But the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is the true God;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.10.10"><span class="content">he is the living God, the eternal King.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.10.10"><span class="content">When he is angry, the earth trembles;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.10.10"><span class="content">the nations cannot endure his wrath.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.10.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.10.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;Tell them this: &#8216;These gods, who did not make the heavens and the earth, will perish from the earth and from under the heavens.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:11 </span><span class="ft">The text of this verse is in Aramaic.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.10.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.10.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">But God made the earth by his power;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.10.12"><span class="content">he founded the world by his wisdom</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.10.12"><span class="content">and stretched out the heavens by his understanding.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.10.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.10.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">When he thunders, the waters in the heavens roar;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.10.13"><span class="content">he makes clouds rise from the ends of the earth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.10.13"><span class="content">He sends lightning with the rain</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.10.13"><span class="content">and brings out the wind from his storehouses.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.10.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.10.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Everyone is senseless and without knowledge;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.10.14"><span class="content">every goldsmith is shamed by his idols.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.10.14"><span class="content">The images he makes are a fraud;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.10.14"><span class="content">they have no breath in them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.10.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.10.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">They are worthless, the objects of mockery;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.10.15"><span class="content">when their judgment comes, they will perish.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.10.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.10.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">He who is the Portion of Jacob is not like these,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.10.16"><span class="content">for he is the Maker of all things,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.10.16"><span class="content">including Israel, the people of his inheritance&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.10.16"><span class="content">the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty is his name.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Coming Destruction</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.10.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.10.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Gather up your belongings to leave the land,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.10.17"><span class="content">you who live under siege.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.10.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.10.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">For this is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.10.18"><span class="content">&#8220;At this time I will hurl out</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.10.18"><span class="content">those who live in this land;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.10.18"><span class="content">I will bring distress on them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.10.18"><span class="content">so that they may be captured.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.10.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.10.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Woe to me because of my injury!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.10.19"><span class="content">My wound is incurable!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.10.19"><span class="content">Yet I said to myself,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.10.19"><span class="content">&#8220;This is my sickness, and I must endure it.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.10.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.10.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">My tent is destroyed;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.10.20"><span class="content">all its ropes are snapped.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.10.20"><span class="content">My children are gone from me and are no more;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.10.20"><span class="content">no one is left now to pitch my tent</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.10.20"><span class="content">or to set up my shelter.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.10.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.10.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">The shepherds are senseless</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.10.21"><span class="content">and do not inquire of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.10.21"><span class="content">so they do not prosper</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.10.21"><span class="content">and all their flock is scattered.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.10.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.10.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Listen! The report is coming&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.10.22"><span class="content">a great commotion from the land of the north!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.10.22"><span class="content">It will make the towns of Judah desolate,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.10.22"><span class="content">a haunt of jackals.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jeremiah&#8217;s Prayer</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.10.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.10.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, I know that people&#8217;s lives are not their own;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.10.23"><span class="content">it is not for them to direct their steps.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JER.10.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.10.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Discipline me, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, but only in due measure&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.10.24"><span class="content">not in your anger,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.10.24"><span class="content">or you will reduce me to nothing.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JER.10.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JER.10.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Pour out your wrath on the nations</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JER.10.25"><span class="content">that do not acknowledge you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JER.10.25"><span class="content">on the peoples who do not call on your name.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JER.10.25"><span class="content">For they have devoured Jacob;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JER.10.25"><span class="content">they have devoured him completely</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JER.10.25"><span class="content">and destroyed his homeland.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">3</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Qualifications for Overseers and Deacons</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1TI.3.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Here is a trustworthy saying: Whoever aspires to be an overseer desires a noble task. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1TI.3.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Now the overseer is to be above reproach, faithful to his wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1TI.3.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">not given to drunkenness, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1TI.3.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">He must manage his own family well and see that his children obey him, and he must do so in a manner worthy of full</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:4 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">him with proper</span></span></span><span class="content"> respect. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1TI.3.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">(If anyone does not know how to manage his own family, how can he take care of God&#8217;s church?) </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1TI.3.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">He must not be a recent convert, or he may become conceited and fall under the same judgment as the devil. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1TI.3.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">He must also have a good reputation with outsiders, so that he will not fall into disgrace and into the devil&#8217;s trap.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1TI.3.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1TI.3.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">In the same way, deacons</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:8 </span><span class="ft">The word </span><span class="fq">deacons </span><span class="ft">refers here to Christians designated to serve with the overseers/elders of the church in a variety of ways; similarly in verse 12; and in Romans 16:1 and Phil. 1:1.</span></span></span><span class="content"> are to be worthy of respect, sincere, not indulging in much wine, and not pursuing dishonest gain. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1TI.3.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">They must keep hold of the deep truths of the faith with a clear conscience. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1TI.3.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">They must first be tested; and then if there is nothing against them, let them serve as deacons.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1TI.3.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1TI.3.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">In the same way, the women</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:11 </span><span class="ft">Possibly deacons&#8217; wives or women who are deacons</span></span></span><span class="content"> are to be worthy of respect, not malicious talkers but temperate and trustworthy in everything.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1TI.3.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1TI.3.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">A deacon must be faithful to his wife and must manage his children and his household well. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1TI.3.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Those who have served well gain an excellent standing and great assurance in their faith in Christ Jesus.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Reasons for Paul&#8217;s Instructions</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1TI.3.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1TI.3.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Although I hope to come to you soon, I am writing you these instructions so that, </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1TI.3.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">if I am delayed, you will know how people ought to conduct themselves in God&#8217;s household, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1TI.3.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Beyond all question, the mystery from which true godliness springs is great:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1TI.3.16"><span class="content">He appeared in the flesh,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1TI.3.16"><span class="content">was vindicated by the Spirit,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:16 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">vindicated in spirit</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1TI.3.16"><span class="content">was seen by angels,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1TI.3.16"><span class="content">was preached among the nations,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1TI.3.16"><span class="content">was believed on in the world,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1TI.3.16"><span class="content">was taken up in glory.</span></span></div>
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