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Jeremiah 9 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:1 - If only my head was a stream of waters and my eyes fountains of weeping, so that I might go on weeping day and night for the dead of the daughter of my people!

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:2 - If only I had in the waste land a night's resting-place for travellers, so that I might go away, far from my people! for they are all untrue, a band of false men.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:3 - Their tongues are bent like a bow to send out false words: they have become strong in the land, but not for good faith: they go on from evil to evil, and they have no knowledge of me, says the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:4 - Let everyone keep watch on his neighbour, and put no faith in any brother: for every brother will certainly be tricking his brother, and every neighbour will go about saying evil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:5 - Everyone will make sport of his neighbour with deceit, not saying what is true: their tongues have been trained to say false words; they are twisted, hating to come back.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:6 - There is wrong on wrong, deceit on deceit; they have given up the knowledge of me, says the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:7 - So the Lord of armies has said, See, I will make them soft in the fire and put them to the test; this I will do because of their evil-doing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:8 - His tongue is an arrow causing death; the words of his mouth are deceit: he says words of peace to his neighbour, but in his heart he is waiting secretly for him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:9 - Am I not to send punishment for these things? says the Lord: will not my soul take payment from such a nation as this?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:10 - Give yourselves to weeping, crying out in sorrow for the mountains; and for the fields of the waste land send up a song of grief, because they are burned up, so that no one goes through; there is no sound of cattle; the bird of the heavens and the beast are in flight and are gone.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:11 - And I will make Jerusalem a mass of broken stones, the living-place of jackals; and I will make the towns of Judah a waste, with no man living there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:12 - Who is the wise man able to see this? who is he to whom the word of the Lord has come, so that he may make it clear? why is the land given to destruction and burned up like a waste place, so that no one goes through?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:13 - And the Lord said, Because they have given up my law which I put before them, giving no attention to my voice and not being guided by it;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:14 - But they have been walking in the pride of their hearts, going after the Baals, as their fathers gave them teaching.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:15 - So the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said, I will give them, even this people, bitter plants for food and bitter water for drink.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:16 - And I will send them wandering among the nations, among people strange to them and to their fathers: and I will send the sword after them till I have put an end to them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:17 - This is what the Lord of armies has said: Take thought and send for the weeping women, so that they may come; and send for the wise women, so that they may come:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:18 - Let them quickly make cries of sorrow for us, so that drops may be flowing from our eyes till they are streaming with water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:19 - For a sound of weeping goes up from Zion, a cry, How has destruction come on us? we are overcome with shame because we have gone away from our land; he has sent us out from our house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:20 - But even now, give ear to the word of the Lord, O you women; let your ears be open to the word of his mouth, training your daughters to give cries of sorrow, everyone teaching her neighbour a song of grief.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:21 - For death has come up into our windows, forcing its way into our great houses; cutting off the children in the streets and the young men in the wide places.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:22 - The bodies of men will be falling like waste on the open fields, and like grain dropped by the grain-cutter, and no one will take them up.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:23 - This is the word of the Lord: Let not the wise man take pride in his wisdom, or the strong man in his strength, or the man of wealth in his wealth:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:24 - But if any man has pride, let it be in this, that he has the wisdom to have knowledge of me, that I am the Lord, working mercy, giving true decisions, and doing righteousness in the earth: for in these things I have delight, says the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:25 - See, the day is coming, says the Lord, when I will send punishment on all those who have circumcision in the flesh;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:26 - On Egypt and on Judah and on Edom and on the children of Ammon and on Moab and on all who have the ends of their hair cut, who are living in the waste land: for all these nations and all the people of Israel are without circumcision in their hearts.
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