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Text -- Jeremiah 9:16-26 (NET)

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9:16 I will scatter them among nations that neither they nor their ancestors have known anything about. I will send people chasing after them with swords until I have destroyed them.’” 9:17 The Lord who rules over all told me to say to this people, “Take note of what I say. Call for the women who mourn for the dead! Summon those who are the most skilled at it!” 9:18 I said, “Indeed, let them come quickly and sing a song of mourning for us. Let them wail loudly until tears stream from our own eyes and our eyelids overflow with water. 9:19 For the sound of wailing is soon to be heard in Zion. They will wail, ‘We are utterly ruined! We are completely disgraced! For our houses have been torn down and we must leave our land.’” 9:20 I said, “So now, you wailing women, hear what the Lord says. Open your ears to the words from his mouth. Teach your daughters this mournful song, and each of you teach your neighbor this lament. 9:21 ‘Death has climbed in through our windows. It has entered into our fortified houses. It has taken away our children who play in the streets. It has taken away our young men who gather in the city squares.’ 9:22 Tell your daughters and neighbors, ‘The Lord says, “The dead bodies of people will lie scattered everywhere like manure scattered on a field. They will lie scattered on the ground like grain that has been cut down but has not been gathered.”’” 9:23 The Lord says, “Wise people should not boast that they are wise. Powerful people should not boast that they are powerful. Rich people should not boast that they are rich. 9:24 If people want to boast, they should boast about this: They should boast that they understand and know me. They should boast that they know and understand that I, the Lord, act out of faithfulness, fairness, and justice in the earth and that I desire people to do these things,” says the Lord. 9:25 The Lord says, “Watch out! The time is soon coming when I will punish all those who are circumcised only in the flesh. 9:26 That is, I will punish the Egyptians, the Judeans, the Edomites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, and all the desert people who cut their hair short at the temples. I will do so because none of the people of those nations are really circumcised in the Lord’s sight. Moreover, none of the people of Israel are circumcised when it comes to their hearts.”
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics

Names, People and Places:
 · Ammon the tribe/nation of people descended from Ben-Ammi, Lot's son,Territory of the tribe/nation of Ammon
 · Edom resident(s) of the region of Edom
 · Egypt descendants of Mizraim
 · Israel a citizen of Israel.,a member of the nation of Israel
 · Judah the son of Jacob and Leah; founder of the tribe of Judah,a tribe, the land/country,a son of Joseph; the father of Simeon; an ancestor of Jesus,son of Jacob/Israel and Leah; founder of the tribe of Judah,the tribe of Judah,citizens of the southern kingdom of Judah,citizens of the Persian Province of Judah; the Jews who had returned from Babylonian exile,"house of Judah", a phrase which highlights the political leadership of the tribe of Judah,"king of Judah", a phrase which relates to the southern kingdom of Judah,"kings of Judah", a phrase relating to the southern kingdom of Judah,"princes of Judah", a phrase relating to the kingdom of Judah,the territory allocated to the tribe of Judah, and also the extended territory of the southern kingdom of Judah,the Province of Judah under Persian rule,"hill country of Judah", the relatively cool and green central highlands of the territory of Judah,"the cities of Judah",the language of the Jews; Hebrew,head of a family of Levites who returned from Exile,a Levite who put away his heathen wife,a man who was second in command of Jerusalem; son of Hassenuah of Benjamin,a Levite in charge of the songs of thanksgiving in Nehemiah's time,a leader who helped dedicate Nehemiah's wall,a Levite musician who helped Zechariah of Asaph dedicate Nehemiah's wall
 · Moab resident(s) of the country of Moab
 · Zion one of the hills on which Jerusalem was built; the temple area; the city of Jerusalem; God's people,a town and citidel; an ancient part of Jerusalem


Dictionary Themes and Topics: Israel | Sin | War | MINSTREL | WOMAN | Wisdom | Ammonites | Edomites | Egypt | Pride | Circumcision | Mourning | Foreskin | God | EXERCISE | EYELID | Conceit | Death | BURIAL | DUNG; DUNG GATE | more
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Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Jer 9:16 He will destroy them but not completely. See Jer 5:18; 30:11; 46:28.

NET Notes: Jer 9:17 Heb “Call for the mourning women that they may come and send for the wise/skilled women that they may come.” The verbs here are masculine ...

NET Notes: Jer 9:18 The words “And I said, ‘Indeed” are not in the text. They have been supplied in the translation to try and help clarify who the spea...

NET Notes: Jer 9:19 The order of these two lines has been reversed for English stylistic reasons. The text reads in Hebrew “because we have left our land because th...

NET Notes: Jer 9:20 Heb “Teach…mournful song, and each woman her neighbor lady…”

NET Notes: Jer 9:21 Here Death is personified (treated as though it were a person). Some have seen as possible background to this lament an allusion to Mesopotamian mytho...

NET Notes: Jer 9:22 Or “‘Death has climbed…city squares. And the dead bodies of people lie scattered…They lie scattered…but has not been gat...

NET Notes: Jer 9:23 Heb “…in their wisdom…in their power…in their riches.”

NET Notes: Jer 9:24 Or “fairness and justice, because these things give me pleasure.” Verse 24 reads in Hebrew, “But let the one who brags brag in this:...

NET Notes: Jer 9:25 Heb “punish all who are circumcised in the flesh.” The translation is contextually motivated to better bring out the contrast that follows...

NET Notes: Jer 9:26 Heb “And all the house of Israel is uncircumcised of heart.”

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