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1 Oh that my head were wa­ters, and mine eyes a foun­tain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daugh­ter of my peo­ple! 2 Oh that I had in the wilder­ness a lodg­ing place of way­far­ing men; that I might leave my peo­ple, and go from them! for they be all adul­ter­ers, an as­sem­bly of treach­er­ous men. 3 And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they pro­ceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD. 4 Take ye heed ev­ery one of his neigh­bour, and trust ye not in any broth­er: for ev­ery broth­er will ut­ter­ly sup­plant, and ev­ery neigh­bour will walk with slan­ders. 5 And they will de­ceive ev­ery one his neigh­bour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary them­selves to com­mit in­iq­ui­ty. 6 Thine habi­ta­tion is in the midst of de­ceit; through de­ceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD. 7 There­fore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Be­hold, I will melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daugh­ter of my peo­ple? 8 Their tongue is as an ar­row shot out; it speaketh de­ceit: one speaketh peace­ably to his neigh­bour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait. 9 Shall I not vis­it them for these things? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a na­tion as this? 10 For the moun­tains will I take up a weep­ing and wail­ing, and for the habi­ta­tions of the wilder­ness a lamen­ta­tion, be­cause they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; nei­ther can men hear the voice of the cat­tle; both the fowl of the heav­ens and the beast are fled; they are gone. 11 And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of drag­ons; and I will make the cities of Ju­dah des­o­late, with­out an in­hab­i­tant. 12 Who is the wise man, that may un­der­stand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of the LORD hath spo­ken, that he may de­clare it, for what the land per­isheth and is burned up like a wilder­ness, that none pas­seth through? 13 And the LORD saith, Be­cause they have for­sak­en my law which I set be­fore them, and have not obeyed my voice, nei­ther walked there­in; 14 But have walked af­ter the imag­i­na­tion of their own heart, and af­ter Baal­im, which their fa­thers taught them: 15 There­fore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Is­rael; Be­hold, I will feed them, even this peo­ple, with worm­wood, and give them wa­ter of gall to drink. 16 I will scat­ter them also among the hea­then, whom nei­ther they nor their fa­thers have known: and I will send a sword af­ter them, till I have con­sumed them. 17 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Con­sid­er ye, and call for the mourn­ing wom­en, that they may come; and send for cun­ning women, that they may come: 18 And let them make haste, and take up a wail­ing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eye­lids gush out with wa­ters. 19 For a voice of wail­ing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are great­ly con­found­ed, be­cause we have for­sak­en the land, be­cause our dwellings have cast us out. 20 Yet hear the word of the LORD, O ye wom­en, and let your ear re­ceive the word of his mouth, and teach your daugh­ters wail­ing, and ev­ery one her neigh­bour lamen­ta­tion. 21 For death is come up into our win­dows, and is en­tered into our palaces, to cut off the chil­dren from with­out, and the young men from the streets. 22 Speak, Thus saith the LORD, Even the car­cas­es of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the hand­ful af­ter the har­vest­man, and none shall gath­er them. 23 Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise man glo­ry in his wis­dom, nei­ther let the mighty man glo­ry in his might, let not the rich man glo­ry in his rich­es: 24 But let him that glo­ri­eth glo­ry in this, that he un­der­standeth and knoweth me, that I am the LORD which ex­er­cise lov­ingkind­ness, judg­ment, and righ­teous­ness, in the earth: for in these things I de­light, saith the LORD. 25 Be­hold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will pun­ish all them which are cir­cum­cised with the un­cir­cum­cised; 26 Egypt, and Ju­dah, and Edom, and the chil­dren of Am­mon, and Moab, and all that are in the ut­most cor­ners, that dwell in the wilder­ness: for all these na­tions are un­cir­cum­cised, and all the house of Is­rael are un­cir­cum­cised in the heart.