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         <div class="label">8</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.8.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;At that time, declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the bones of the kings and officials of Judah, the bones of the priests and prophets, and the bones of the people of Jerusalem will be removed from their graves. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.8.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">They will be exposed to the sun and the moon and all the stars of the heavens, which they have loved and served and which they have followed and consulted and worshiped. They will not be gathered up or buried, but will be like dung lying on the ground. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.8.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Wherever I banish them, all the survivors of this evil nation will prefer death to life, declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Sin and Punishment</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.8.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.8.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;Say to them, &#8216;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 v4" data-usfm="JER.8.4"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;When people fall down, do they not get up?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.8.4"><span class="content">When someone turns away, do they not return?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.8.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.8.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Why then have these people turned away?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.8.5"><span class="content">Why does Jerusalem always turn away?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.8.5"><span class="content">They cling to deceit;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.8.5"><span class="content">they refuse to return.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.8.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.8.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">I have listened attentively,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.8.6"><span class="content">but they do not say what is right.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.8.6"><span class="content">None of them repent of their wickedness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.8.6"><span class="content">saying, &#8220;What have I done?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.8.6"><span class="content">Each pursues their own course</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.8.6"><span class="content">like a horse charging into battle.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.8.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.8.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Even the stork in the sky</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.8.7"><span class="content">knows her appointed seasons,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.8.7"><span class="content">and the dove, the swift and the thrush</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.8.7"><span class="content">observe the time of their migration.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.8.7"><span class="content">But my people do not know</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.8.7"><span class="content">the requirements of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.8.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.8.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;How can you say, &#8220;We are wise,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.8.8"><span class="content">for we have the law of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.8.8"><span class="content">when actually the lying pen of the scribes</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.8.8"><span class="content">has handled it falsely?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.8.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.8.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The wise will be put to shame;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.8.9"><span class="content">they will be dismayed and trapped.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.8.9"><span class="content">Since they have rejected 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 v9" data-usfm="JER.8.9"><span class="content">what kind of wisdom do they have?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.8.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.8.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Therefore I will give their wives to other men</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.8.10"><span class="content">and their fields to new owners.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.8.10"><span class="content">From the least to the greatest,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.8.10"><span class="content">all are greedy for gain;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.8.10"><span class="content">prophets and priests alike,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.8.10"><span class="content">all practice deceit.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.8.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.8.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">They dress the wound of my people</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.8.11"><span class="content">as though it were not serious.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.8.11"><span class="content">&#8220;Peace, peace,&#8221; they say,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.8.11"><span class="content">when there is no peace.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.8.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.8.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Are they ashamed of their detestable conduct?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.8.12"><span class="content">No, they have no shame at all;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.8.12"><span class="content">they do not even know how to blush.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.8.12"><span class="content">So they will fall among the fallen;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.8.12"><span class="content">they will be brought down when they are punished,</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.8.12"><span class="content">says the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.8.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.8.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;I will take away their harvest,</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.8.13"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.8.13"><span class="content">There will be no grapes on the vine.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.8.13"><span class="content">There will be no figs on the tree,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.8.13"><span class="content">and their leaves will wither.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.8.13"><span class="content">What I have given them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.8.13"><span class="content">will be taken from them.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:13 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this sentence is uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.8.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.8.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Why are we sitting here?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.8.14"><span class="content">Gather together!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.8.14"><span class="content">Let us flee to the fortified cities</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.8.14"><span class="content">and perish there!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.8.14"><span class="content">For the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God has doomed us to perish</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.8.14"><span class="content">and given us poisoned water to drink,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.8.14"><span class="content">because we have sinned against him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.8.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.8.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">We hoped for peace</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.8.15"><span class="content">but no good has come,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.8.15"><span class="content">for a time of healing</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.8.15"><span class="content">but there is only terror.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.8.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.8.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">The snorting of the enemy&#8217;s horses</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.8.16"><span class="content">is heard from Dan;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.8.16"><span class="content">at the neighing of their stallions</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.8.16"><span class="content">the whole land trembles.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.8.16"><span class="content">They have come to devour</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.8.16"><span class="content">the land and everything in it,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.8.16"><span class="content">the city and all who live there.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.8.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.8.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;See, I will send venomous snakes among you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.8.17"><span class="content">vipers that cannot be charmed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.8.17"><span class="content">and they will bite you,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.8.17"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.8.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.8.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">You who are my Comforter</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:18 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content"> in sorrow,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.8.18"><span class="content">my heart is faint within me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.8.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.8.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Listen to the cry of my people</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.8.19"><span class="content">from a land far away:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.8.19"><span class="content">&#8220;Is the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> not in Zion?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.8.19"><span class="content">Is her King no longer there?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.8.19"><span class="content">&#8220;Why have they aroused my anger with their images,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.8.19"><span class="content">with their worthless foreign idols?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.8.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.8.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">&#8220;The harvest is past,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.8.20"><span class="content">the summer has ended,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.8.20"><span class="content">and we are not saved.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.8.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.8.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Since my people are crushed, I am crushed;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.8.21"><span class="content">I mourn, and horror grips me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JER.8.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.8.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Is there no balm in Gilead?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.8.22"><span class="content">Is there no physician there?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.8.22"><span class="content">Why then is there no healing</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JER.8.22"><span class="content">for the wound of my people?</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch9" data-usfm="JER.9.1+JER.9.2+JER.9.3+JER.9.4+JER.9.5+JER.9.6+JER.9.7+JER.9.8+JER.9.9+JER.9.10+JER.9.11+JER.9.12+JER.9.13+JER.9.14+JER.9.15+JER.9.16+JER.9.17+JER.9.18+JER.9.19+JER.9.20+JER.9.21+JER.9.22+JER.9.23+JER.9.24">
         <div class="q1"><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></div>
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