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Text -- Jeremiah 9:1-14 (NET)

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9:1 I wish that my head were a well full of water and my eyes were a fountain full of tears! If they were, I could cry day and night for those of my dear people who have been killed. 9:2 I wish I had a lodging place in the desert where I could spend some time like a weary traveler. Then I would desert my people and walk away from them because they are all unfaithful to God, a congregation of people that has been disloyal to him.
The Lord Laments That He Has No Choice But to Judge Them
9:3 The Lord says, “These people are like soldiers who have readied their bows. Their tongues are always ready to shoot out lies. They have become powerful in the land, but they have not done so by honest means. Indeed, they do one evil thing after another and do not pay attention to me. 9:4 Everyone must be on his guard around his friends. He must not even trust any of his relatives. For every one of them will find some way to cheat him. And all of his friends will tell lies about him. 9:5 One friend deceives another and no one tells the truth. These people have trained themselves to tell lies. They do wrong and are unable to repent. 9:6 They do one act of violence after another, and one deceitful thing after another. They refuse to pay attention to me,” says the Lord. 9:7 Therefore the Lord who rules over all says, “I will now purify them in the fires of affliction and test them. The wickedness of my dear people has left me no choice. What else can I do? 9:8 Their tongues are like deadly arrows. They are always telling lies. Friendly words for their neighbors come from their mouths. But their minds are thinking up ways to trap them. 9:9 I will certainly punish them for doing such things!” says the Lord. “I will certainly bring retribution on such a nation as this!”
The Coming Destruction Calls For Mourning
9:10 I said, “I will weep and mourn for the grasslands on the mountains, I will sing a mournful song for the pastures in the wilderness because they are so scorched no one travels through them. The sound of livestock is no longer heard there. Even the birds in the sky and the wild animals in the fields have fled and are gone.” 9:11 The Lord said, “I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins. Jackals will make their home there. I will destroy the towns of Judah so that no one will be able to live in them.” 9:12 I said, “Who is wise enough to understand why this has happened? Who has a word from the Lord that can explain it? Why does the land lie in ruins? Why is it as scorched as a desert through which no one travels?” 9:13 The Lord answered, “This has happened because these people have rejected my laws which I gave them. They have not obeyed me or followed those laws. 9:14 Instead they have followed the stubborn inclinations of their own hearts. They have paid allegiance to the gods called Baal, as their fathers taught them to do.
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics

Names, People and Places:
 · Baal a pagan god,a title of a pagan god,a town in the Negeb on the border of Simeon and Judah,son of Reaiah son of Micah; a descendant of Reuben,the forth son of Jeiel, the Benjamite
 · Jerusalem the capital city of Israel,a town; the capital of Israel near the southern border of Benjamin
 · 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


Dictionary Themes and Topics: Sin | Israel | War | Wicked | Deceit | Dishonesty | Truth | Lies and Deceits | Zeal | Church | Dragon | INN | Hypocrisy | Patriotism | Nation | Jackal | Blindness | TEXT OF THE OLD TESTAMENT | Refining | Parents | more
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NET Notes: Jer 9:1 Heb “daughter of my people.” For the translation given here see 4:11 and the note on the phrase “dear people” there.

NET Notes: Jer 9:2 Heb “they are all adulterers, a congregation of unfaithful people.” However, spiritual adultery is, of course, meant, not literal adultery...

NET Notes: Jer 9:3 Or “do not acknowledge me”; Heb “do not know me.” But “knowing” in Hebrew thought often involves more than intelle...

NET Notes: Jer 9:4 There is perhaps an intentional pun and allusion here to Gen 27:36 and the wordplay on the name Jacob there. The text here reads עָק...

NET Notes: Jer 9:5 Heb “their tongues.” However, this is probably not a natural idiom in contemporary English and the tongue may stand as a part for the whol...

NET Notes: Jer 9:6 Or “do not acknowledge me”; Heb “do not know me.” See the note on the phrase “do not take any thought of me” in 9:...

NET Notes: Jer 9:7 Heb “For how else shall I deal because of the wickedness of the daughter of my people.” The MT does not have the word “wickedness.&#...

NET Notes: Jer 9:8 Heb “With his mouth a person speaks peace to his neighbor, but in his heart he sets an ambush for him.”

NET Notes: Jer 9:9 See 5:9, 29. This is somewhat of a refrain at the end of a catalog of Judah’s sins.

NET Notes: Jer 9:10 Heb “for the mountains.” However, the context makes clear that it is the grasslands or pastures on the mountains that are meant. The words...

NET Notes: Jer 9:11 Heb “a heap of ruins, a haunt for jackals.”

NET Notes: Jer 9:12 Heb “And [who is the man] to whom the mouth of the Lord has spoken that he may explain it?”

NET Notes: Jer 9:13 Heb “and they have not walked in it (with “it” referring to “my law”).

NET Notes: Jer 9:14 Or “forefathers,” or “ancestors.” Here the referent could be the immediate parents or, by their example, more distant ancestor...

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