Book of Jeremiah, Chapter 9

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Jeremiah 9 NWT - New World Translation

Chapter 9 of Jeremiah—New World Translation (NWT)

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¶ O that my head were waters, and that my eyes were a source of tears!¹ Then I could weep day and night for the slain ones of the daughter of my people.^[a]²
¶ O that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of travelers!³ Then I would leave my people and go away from them, for all of them are adulterers,^[b]⁴ a solemn assembly of treacherous dealers;⁵
and they bend their tongue as their bow in falsehood;⁶ but not for faithfulness have they proved mighty in the land.^[c]
¶ “For from badness to badness they went forth, and they ignored even me,”⁷ is the utterance of Jehovah.
¶ “Guard yourselves each one against his own companion,⁸ and put YOUR trust in no brother at all.⁹ For even every brother would positively supplant,¹⁰ and every companion himself would walk around as a mere slanderer,¹¹
and they keep trifling each one with his companion;¹² and they speak no truth at all. They have taught their tongue to speak falsehood.¹³ They have tired themselves out merely in doing wrong.¹⁴
¶ “Your sitting is in the midst of deception.¹⁵ Through deception they have refused to know me,”¹⁶ is the utterance of Jehovah.
¶ Therefore this is what Jehovah of armies has said: “Here I am smelting them, and I have to examine them,¹⁷ because how otherwise shall I act on account of the daughter of my people?¹⁸
Their tongue is a slaughtering arrow.^[d]¹⁹ Deception is what it has spoken. With his mouth, peace is what [a person] keeps speaking with his own companion; but within himself he sets his ambush.”²⁰
¶ “Because of these things should I not hold an accounting with them?” is the utterance of Jehovah. “Or upon a nation that is like this should not my soul avenge itself?²¹
Over the mountains I shall raise a weeping and lamentation,²² and over the pasture grounds of the wilderness a dirge; for they will have been burned²³ so that there is no man passing through and people actually will not hear the sound of livestock.²⁴ Both the flying creature of the heavens and the beast will have fled; they will have gone.²⁵
And I will make Jerusalem piles of stones,²⁶ the lair of jackals;²⁷ and the cities of Judah I shall make a desolate waste, without an inhabitant.²⁸
¶ “Who is the man that is wise, that he may understand this, even the one to whom the mouth of Jehovah has spoken, that he may tell it?²⁹ On what account should the land actually perish, be actually burned like the wilderness without anyone passing through?”³⁰
¶ And Jehovah proceeded to say: “On account of their leaving my law that I gave [to be] before them, and [because] they have not obeyed my voice and have not walked in it,^[e]³¹
but they kept on walking after the stubbornness of their heart³² and after the Baʹal images,^[f]³³ about which their fathers had taught them;³⁴
therefore this is what Jehovah of armies, the God^[g] of Israel, has said, ‘Here I am making them, that is, this people, eat wormwood,³⁵ and I will make them drink poisoned water;³⁶
and I will scatter them among the nations that neither they nor their fathers have known,³⁷ and I will send after them the sword until I shall have exterminated them.’³⁸
¶ “This is what Jehovah of armies has said, ‘Behave with understanding, YOU people, and call the dirge-chanting women,³⁹ that they may come; and send even to the skilled^[h] women, that they may come,⁴⁰
and that they may hurry and raise up over us a lamentation. And may our eyes run down with tears and our own beaming eyes trickle with waters.⁴¹
For the voice of lamentation is what has been heard from Zion:⁴² “How we have been despoiled!⁴³ How much we have felt shame! For we have left the land; for they^[i] have thrown away our residences.”^[j]⁴⁴
But hear, O YOU women, the word of Jehovah, and may YOUR ear take the word of his mouth. Then teach YOUR daughters a lamentation,⁴⁵ and each woman her companion a dirge.⁴⁶
For death has come up through our windows; it has come into our dwelling towers, in order to cut off the child from the street, the young men from the public squares.’⁴⁷
¶ “Speak, ‘This is what the utterance of Jehovah is: “The dead bodies of mankind^[k] must also fall like manure upon the face of the field and like a row of newly cut grain after the reaper, with no one to do the gathering up.”’”⁴⁸
¶ This is what Jehovah has said: “Let not the wise man brag about himself because of his wisdom,⁴⁹ and let not the mighty man brag about himself because of his mightiness.⁵⁰ Let not the rich man brag about himself because of his riches.”⁵¹
¶ “But let the one bragging about himself brag about himself because of this very thing, the having of insight⁵² and the having of knowledge of me, that I am Jehovah,⁵³ the One exercising loving-kindness, justice^[l] and righteousness in the earth;⁵⁴ for in these things I do take delight,”⁵⁵ is the utterance of Jehovah.
¶ “Look! Days are coming,” is the utterance of Jehovah, “and I will hold an accounting with everyone circumcised [but still] in uncircumcision,^[m]⁵⁶
upon Egypt⁵⁷ and upon Judah⁵⁸ and upon Eʹdom⁵⁹ and upon the sons of Amʹmon⁶⁰ and upon Moʹab⁶¹ and upon all those with hair clipped at the temples who are dwelling in the wilderness;⁶² for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart.”⁶³

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FOOTNOTES

^ MLXX end chapter 8 here with this as vs 23.
^ “Adulterers.” Lat., a·dulʹte·ri.
^ Or, “earth.”
^ “A slaughtering arrow,” M; M^margin, “a hammered arrow”; by another derivation, “an arrow from a special wood [bow].”
^ “It,” fem. sing., referring to the “law.”
^ Or, “the Baals.”
^ “The God of.” Heb., ʼElo·hehʹ.
^ Lit., “wise.”
^ “They,” MSy; LXX, “we.”
^ Or, “for our residences have been thrown away,” in agreement with Vg.
^ Or, “men.” Heb., ha·ʼa·dhamʹ.
^ Or, “judgment.” Heb., mish·patʹ.
^ Or, “in [his] foreskin,” a sign of uncircumcision. Or, “among the uncircumcision [the ones who are uncircumcised, having foreskins].”

REFERENCES

^ Is 22:4; Je 13:17; La 2:11
^ Je 6:26
^ Ps 55:7
^ Je 5:7; 23:10; Ho 7:4
^ Je 12:1; Ho 5:7; 6:7; Ml 2:11
^ Ps 64:3; Is 59:3; Ro 3:13
^ Je 4:22; Ro 1:28
^ Je 12:6; Mc 7:2
^ Mc 7:5
^ Ge 27:36
^ Le 19:16; 2Sa 19:27; Ps 15:3; Pr 20:19; Je 6:28; Eze 22:9
^ Ge 31:7; Jb 11:3
^ Ps 50:19; Mc 6:12
^ Eze 24:12
^ Je 18:18
^ Pr 1:24; Ho 4:6; Ro 1:28; 1Co 15:34
^ Ps 66:10; Is 1:25; 48:10; Ml 3:3
^ 2Ch 36:15
^ Ps 12:2; 120:3
^ 2Sa 3:27; 20:10; Ps 28:3
^ Je 5:9
^ Je 7:29
^ Je 12:4; 23:10
^ Eze 14:15
^ Je 4:25; Ho 4:3; Zp 1:3
^ Ps 79:1; Is 25:2; Je 26:18
^ Is 13:22; Je 10:22
^ Je 4:27; 25:11; 32:43
^ Is 42:23; Ho 14:9
^ De 29:24
^ Ps 89:30
^ Je 3:17; 7:24
^ Jg 3:7; 1Sa 12:10; Ho 11:2
^ Je 44:17
^ Je 23:15; La 3:15
^ Je 8:14; La 3:19
^ Le 26:33; De 28:64; Ne 1:8; Ps 106:27; Zc 7:14
^ Je 29:17; Eze 5:2
^ 2Ch 35:25
^ Ec 12:5; Am 5:16
^ Je 6:26; 14:17
^ Je 4:31; Eze 7:16; Mc 1:8
^ De 28:29; Je 4:13
^ Le 18:28; 20:22; La 4:15; Mc 2:10
^ 1Sa 7:2; Is 29:2; Mc 2:4
^ 2Sa 1:17; Je 7:29
^ 2Ch 36:17; Je 6:11
^ Ps 83:10; Is 5:25; Je 8:2; 16:4
^ Ps 49:10; Pr 3:5; Ec 9:11; Is 5:21
^ De 8:17; Ps 33:16; Da 4:30; 1Co 3:21
^ De 8:14; Ps 49:6; Pr 11:4; 18:11; Lu 12:15; 1Ti 6:17
^ 2Co 10:17
^ Ps 91:14; Jn 17:3; 1Co 1:31
^ Ex 34:6; Ne 1:5; 9:17; Ps 51:1; 89:14
^ Ps 99:4; Ho 6:6; Mc 6:8; 7:18
^ Am 3:2; Ac 7:51; Ro 2:25
^ Is 19:1; Eze 29:2
^ Is 1:1
^ Je 27:3; Eze 32:29; Ob 1
^ Je 49:1; Eze 25:2
^ Is 15:1; Je 48:1
^ Je 25:23; 49:32
^ Le 26:41; De 30:6; Je 4:4; Ro 2:29

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