Shall I not visit them for these [things]? saith the Lord: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? (9:9)

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 (9:10)

And I will make Jerusalem heaps, [and] a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant (9:11)

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? (9:12)

And the Lord saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein; (9:13)

But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them: (9:14)

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 (9:15)

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 (9:16)

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: (9:17)

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 (9:18)

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 (9:19)

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 (9:20)

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 (9:21)

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] (9:22)

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: (9:23)

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 (9:24)

Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will punish all [them which are] circumcised with the uncircumcised; (9:25)

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 (9:26)

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