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Jeremiah 9:1-18

9:1

Oh that
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my head
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were waters
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and mine eyes
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a fountain
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of tears
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that I might weep
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day
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and night
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for the slain
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of the daughter
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of my people
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{Oh...: Heb. Who will give my head, etc}

9:2

Oh that
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I had in the wilderness
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a lodging place
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of wayfaring men
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that I might leave
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my people
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and go
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from them! for they [be] all adulterers
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an assembly
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of treacherous men
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9:3

And they bend
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their tongues
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[like] their bow
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[for] lies
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but they are not valiant
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for the truth
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upon the earth
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for they proceed
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from evil
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to evil
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and they know
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not me, saith
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the LORD
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9:4

Take ye heed
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every one
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of his neighbour
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and trust
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ye not in any brother
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for every brother
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will utterly
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supplant
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and every neighbour
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will walk
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with slanders
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{neighbour: or, friend}

9:5

And they will deceive
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every one
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his neighbour
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and will not speak
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the truth
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they have taught
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their tongue
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to speak
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lies
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[and] weary
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themselves to commit iniquity
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{deceive: or, mock}

9:6

Thine habitation
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[is] in the midst
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of deceit
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through deceit
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they refuse
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to know
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me, saith
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the LORD
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9:7

Therefore thus saith
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the LORD
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of hosts
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Behold, I will melt
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them, and try
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them; for how shall I do
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for
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the daughter
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of my people
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9:8

Their tongue
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[is as] an arrow
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shot out
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it speaketh
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deceit
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[one] speaketh
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peaceably
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to his neighbour
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with his mouth
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but in heart
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he layeth
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his wait
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{in heart: Heb. in the midst of him} {his wait: or, wait for him}

9:9

Shall I not visit
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them for these [things]? saith
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the LORD
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shall not my soul
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be avenged
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on such a nation
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as this?

9:10

For the mountains
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will I take up
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a weeping
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and wailing
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and for the habitations
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of the wilderness
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a lamentation
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because they are burned up
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so that none
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can pass
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through [them]; neither can [men] hear
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the voice
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of the cattle
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both the fowl
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of the heavens
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and the beast
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are fled
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they are gone
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{habitations: or, pastures} {burned up: or, desolate} {both...: Heb. from the fowl even to, etc}

9:11

And I will make
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Jerusalem
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heaps
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[and] a den
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of dragons
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and I will make
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the cities
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of Judah
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desolate
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without an inhabitant
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{desolate: Heb. desolation}

9:12

Who [is] the wise
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man
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that may understand
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this? and [who is he] to whom the mouth
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of the LORD
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hath spoken
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that he may declare
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it, for what the land
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perisheth
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[and] is burned up
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like a wilderness
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that none passeth through
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9:13

And the LORD
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saith
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Because they have forsaken
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my law
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which I set
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before
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them, and have not obeyed
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my voice
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neither walked
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therein;

9:14

But have walked
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after
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the imagination
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of their own heart
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and after
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Baalim
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which their fathers
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taught
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them: {imagination: or, stubbornness}

9:15

Therefore thus saith
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the LORD
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of hosts
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the God
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of Israel
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Behold, I will feed
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them, [even] this people
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with wormwood
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and give them water
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of gall
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to drink
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9:16

I will scatter
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them also among the heathen
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whom neither they nor their fathers
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have known
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and I will send
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a sword
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after
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them, till I have consumed
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them.

9:17

Thus saith
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the LORD
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of hosts
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Consider
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ye, and call
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for the mourning women
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that they may come
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and send
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for cunning
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[women], that they may come
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9:18

And let them make haste
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and take up
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a wailing
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for us, that our eyes
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may run down
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with tears
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and our eyelids
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gush out
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with waters
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