Through The Prophets Verse By Verse (Isaiah-Malachi) (2)

[bible]Jeremiah 9:3[/bible]

Jeremiah 9:5

Everyone will deceive his neighbor, and will not speak the truth; they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.

[bible]Jeremiah 9:6[/bible]

Jeremiah 9:8

Their tongue is an arrow shot out; it speaks deceit; one speaks peaceby to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart he lies in wait.

Jeremiah 9:10

I will take up a weeping and a wailing for the mountains, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that no one can pass thru them; nor can men hear the voiceof cattle. Both the birds of the heavens and the beasts have fled; they are gone.

Jeremiah 9:12 Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of the LORD hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perisheth and is burned up like a wilderness, that none passeth through?

Jeremiah 9:13
The LORD said, "It is because they have forsaken my law, which I set before them; they have not obeyed me or followed my law.

Jeremiah 9:15 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.

Jeremiah 9:17

Thus says the Lord of hosts: "Consider and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for skillful wailing women, that they may come.

Jeremiah 9:19

For a voice of wailing is heard from Zion: 'How we are plundered! We are greatly ashamed, because we have forsaken the land, because we have been cast out of our dwellings.'"

Jeremiah 9:20

Now, O women, hear the word of the LORD;
open your ears to the words of his mouth.
Teach your daughters how to wail;
teach one another a lament.

Jeremiah 9:21
Death has climbed in through our windows and has entered our fortresses; it has cut off the children from the streets and the young men from the public squares.

Jeremiah 9:22

Speak, "Thus says the Lord: 'Even the carcasses of men shall fall as refuse on the open field, like cuttings after the harvester, and no one shall gather them.'"