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Jeremiah 9 :: Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:1 - Who doth make my head waters, And mine eye a fountain of tears? And I weep by day and by night, For the wounded of the daughter of my people.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:2 - Who doth give me in a wilderness A lodging-place of travellers? And I leave my people, and go from them, For all of them are adulterers, An assembly of treacherous ones.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:3 - And they bend their tongue, their bow is a lie, And not for stedfastness have they been mighty in the land, For from evil unto evil they have gone forth, And Me they have not known, An affirmation of Jehovah!
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:4 - Each of his friend -- beware ye, And on any brother, do not trust, For every brother doth utterly supplant, For every friend slanderously doth walk,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:5 - And each at his friend they mock, And truth they do not speak, They taught their tongue to speak falsehood, To commit iniquity they have laboured.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:6 - thy dwelling is in the midst of deceit, Through deceit they refused to know Me, An affirmation of Jehovah.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:7 - Therefore, thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Lo, I am refining them, and have tried them, For how do I do because of the daughter of My people?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:8 - A slaughtering arrow is their tongue, Deceit it hath spoken in its mouth, Peace with its neighbour it speaketh, And in its heart it layeth its ambush,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:9 - For these things do not I see after them? An affirmation of Jehovah, Against a nation such as this doth not My soul avenge itself?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:10 - For the mountains I lift up weeping and wailing, And for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, For they have been burnt up without any passing over, Nor have they heard the voice of cattle, From the fowl of the heavens unto the beast they have fled, they have gone.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:11 - And I make Jerusalem become heaps, A habitation of dragons, And the cities of Judah I make a desolation, Without inhabitant.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:12 - Who is the wise man? and he understandeth this, And he to whom the mouth of Jehovah spake? And he doth declare it, For what hath the land perished? It hath been burnt up as a wilderness, Without any passing through.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:13 - And Jehovah saith: Because of their forsaking My law that I set before them, And they have not hearkened to My voice nor walked in it,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:14 - And they walk after the stubbornness of their heart, And after the Baalim, that their fathers taught them,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:15 - Therefore, thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel: Lo, I am causing them -- this people -- to eat wormwood, And I have caused them to drink water of gall,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:16 - And I have scattered them among nations Which they knew not, they and their fathers, And have sent after them the sword, Till I have consumed them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:17 - Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Consider ye, and call for mourning women, And they come, And to the wise women send, and they come,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:18 - And they hasten, and lift up for us a wailing. And run down our eyes do tears, And from our eyelids do waters flow.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:19 - For -- a voice of wailing is heard from Zion: How have we been spoiled! We have been greatly ashamed, Because we have forsaken the land, Because they have cast down our tabernacles.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:20 - But hear, ye women, a word of Jehovah, And your ear receiveth a word of His mouth, And teach ye your daughters wailing, and each her neighbour lamentation.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:21 - For death hath come up into our windows, It hath come into our palaces, To cut off the suckling from without, Young men from the broad places.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:22 - Speak thus -- an affirmation of Jehovah, And fallen hath the carcase of man, As dung on the face of the field, And as a handful after the reaper, And there is none gathering.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:23 - Thus said Jehovah: Let not the wise boast himself in his wisdom, Nor let the mighty boast himself in his might, Let not the rich boast himself in his riches,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:24 - But -- in this let the boaster boast himself, In understanding and knowing Me, For I am Jehovah, doing kindness, Judgment, and righteousness, in the earth, For in these I have delighted, An affirmation of Jehovah.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:25 - Lo, days are coming -- an affirmation of Jehovah, And I have laid a charge on all circumcised in the foreskin,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:26 - On Egypt, and on Judah, and on Edom, And on the sons of Ammon, and on Moab, And on all cutting the corner of the beard, Who are dwelling in the wilderness, For all the nations are uncircumcised, And all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart!
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The Young's Literal Translation was translated by Robert Young, who believed in a strictly literal translation of God's word. This version of the Bible is in the public domain.

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