Jeremiah 9 :: New American Standard Bible 1995 (NASB95)

A Lament over Zion

Jer 9:1 [fn]Oh that my head were waters
And my eyes a fountain of tears,
That I might weep day and night
For the slain of the daughter of my people!

Jer 9:2

Jer 9:2 [fn]Oh that I had in the desert
A wayfarers’ lodging place;
That I might leave my people
And go from them!
For all of them are adulterers,
An assembly of treacherous men.

Jer 9:3

Jer 9:3“They bend their tongue like their bow;
Lies and not truth prevail in the land;
For they proceed from evil to evil,
And they do not know Me,” declares the LORD.

Jer 9:4

Jer 9:4“Let everyone be on guard against his neighbor,
And do not trust any brother;
Because every brother deals [fn]craftily,
And every neighbor goes about as a slanderer.

Jer 9:5

Jer 9:5“Everyone deceives his neighbor
And does not speak the truth,
They have taught their tongue to speak lies;
They weary themselves committing iniquity.

Jer 9:6

Jer 9:6“Your dwelling is in the midst of deceit;
Through deceit they refuse to know Me,” declares the LORD.

Jer 9:7

Jer 9:7Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts,
“Behold, I will refine them and assay them;
For what else can I do, because of the daughter of My people?

Jer 9:8

Jer 9:8“Their tongue is a deadly arrow;
It speaks deceit;
With his mouth one speaks peace to his neighbor,
But inwardly he sets an ambush for him.

Jer 9:9

Jer 9:9“Shall I not punish them for these things?” declares the LORD.
“On a nation such as this
Shall I not avenge Myself?

Jer 9:10

Jer 9:10“For the mountains I will take up a weeping and wailing,
And for the pastures of the wilderness a dirge,
Because they are laid waste so that no one passes through,
And the lowing of the cattle is not heard;
Both the birds of the sky and the beasts have fled; they are gone.

Jer 9:11

Jer 9:11“I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins,
A haunt of jackals;
And I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”

Jer 9:12

Jer 9:12Who is the wise man that may understand this? And who is he to whom the mouth of the LORD has spoken, that he may declare it? Why is the land ruined, laid waste like a desert, so that no one passes through?

Jer 9:13

Jer 9:13The LORD said, “Because they have forsaken My law which I set before them, and have not obeyed My voice nor walked according to it,

Jer 9:14

Jer 9:14but have walked after the stubbornness of their heart and after the Baals, as their fathers taught them,”

Jer 9:15

Jer 9:15therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, “behold, I will feed them, this people, with wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink.

Jer 9:16

Jer 9:16“I will scatter them among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known; and I will send the sword after them until I have annihilated them.”

Jer 9:17

Jer 9:17Thus says the LORD of hosts,
“Consider and call for the mourning women, that they may come;
And send for the [fn]wailing women, that they may come!

Jer 9:18

Jer 9:18“Let them make haste and take up a wailing for us,
That our eyes may shed tears
And our eyelids flow with water.

Jer 9:19

Jer 9:19“For a voice of wailing is heard from Zion,
‘How are we ruined!
We are put to great shame,
For we have left the land,
Because they have cast down our dwellings.’”

Jer 9:20

Jer 9:20Now hear the word of the LORD, O you women,
And let your ear receive the word of His mouth;
Teach your daughters wailing,
And everyone her neighbor a dirge.

Jer 9:21

Jer 9:21For death has come up through our windows;
It has entered our palaces
To cut off the children from the streets,
The young men from the town squares.

Jer 9:22

Jer 9:22Speak, “Thus says the LORD,
‘The corpses of men will fall like dung on the open field,
And like the sheaf after the reaper,
But no one will gather them.’”

Jer 9:23

Jer 9:23Thus says the LORD, “Let not a wise man boast of his wisdom, and let not the mighty man boast of his might, let not a rich man boast of his riches;

Jer 9:24

Jer 9:24but let him who boasts boast of this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the LORD who exercises lovingkindness, justice and righteousness on earth; for I delight in these things,” declares the LORD.

Jer 9:25

Jer 9:25“Behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “that I will punish all who are circumcised and yet uncircumcised—

Jer 9:26

Jer 9:26Egypt and Judah, and Edom and the sons of Ammon, and Moab and all those inhabiting the desert who clip the hair on their temples; for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised of heart.”

See the NASB95 Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).

NASB95 Footnotes

(9:1)

Ch 8:23 in Heb

(9:2)

Ch 9:1 in Heb

(9:4)

I.e. like Jacob (a play on words)

(9:17)

Literally: skilled

New American Standard Bible 1995
Copyright (c) 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995
by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif.
All rights reserved
https://www.lockman.org/new-american-standard-bible-nasb/

The "NASB," "NAS," "New American Standard Bible," and "New American Standard" trademarks are registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office by The Lockman Foundation. Use of these trademarks requires the permission of The Lockman Foundation.

For Permission To Quote visit http://www.lockman.org

For more information on this translation, see the NASB95 Preface.

Jeremiah Chapter 9 — Additional Translations:

King James Version New King James Version New Living Translation New International Version English Standard Version Christian Standard Bible New American Standard Bible 2020 Legacy Standard Bible Amplified Bible New English Translation Revised Standard Version American Standard Version Young's Literal Translation Darby Translation Webster's Bible Hebrew Names Version Latin Vulgate Westminster Leningrad Codex Septuagint Smith Van Dyck Arabic Bible Open New Arabic Version Brenton's English Septuagint Reina Valera 1909 Reina-Valera 1960 Bible in Basic English Chinese Traditional Union Espanol Moderno Korean Holy Bible Louis Segond German Luther Russian Synodal Translation Sagradas Escrituras

Jeremiah 9 :: New American Standard Bible 1995 (NASB95)

A Lament over Zion

NASB95 Footnotes

Jeremiah Chapter 9 — Additional Translations:

Did You Know BLB Is User Supported?