Jeremiah 9

for the slain of the daughter of my people!

an assembly of treacherous men.

and they don’t know me,” says Yahweh.

and every neighbor will go around like a slanderer.

They weary themselves commiting iniquity.

Through deceit, they refuse to know me,” says Yahweh.

for how should I deal with the daughter of my people?

but in his heart, he waits to ambush him.

“Shouldn’t my soul be avenged on a nation such as this?

They are gone.

without inhabitant.”

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?

Yahweh says, “Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice or walked in my ways,

but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart and after the Baals, which their fathers taught them.”

Therefore Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says, “Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink.

I will scatter them also among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known. I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them.”

Send for the skillful women, that they may come.

and our eyelids gush out with waters.

because they have cast down our dwellings.’ ”

Everyone teach her neighbor a lamentation.

and the young men from the streets.

No one will gather them.’ ”

Don’t let the rich man glory in his riches.

for I delight in these things,” says Yahweh.

“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will punish all those who are circumcised only in their flesh:

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.”