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Text -- Jeremiah 9:14-26 (NET)
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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.
9:15 So then, listen to what I, the Lord God of Israel who rules over all , say . ‘I will make these people eat the bitter food of suffering and drink the poison water of judgment.
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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NET Notes -> Jer 9:14; Jer 9:14; Jer 9:14; Jer 9:15; Jer 9:15; Jer 9:15; Jer 9:15; Jer 9:16; Jer 9:16; Jer 9:16; Jer 9:17; Jer 9:17; Jer 9:17; Jer 9:17; Jer 9:17; Jer 9:18; Jer 9:19; Jer 9:19; Jer 9:19; Jer 9:19; Jer 9:20; Jer 9:20; Jer 9:20; Jer 9:20; Jer 9:20; Jer 9:21; Jer 9:22; Jer 9:23; Jer 9:23; Jer 9:23; Jer 9:24; Jer 9:25; Jer 9:25; Jer 9:26; Jer 9:26; Jer 9:26; Jer 9:26; Jer 9:26
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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NET Notes: Jer 9:15 Heb “I will feed this people wormwood and make them drink poison water.” “Wormwood” and “poison water” are not to ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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:...
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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...
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