Jeremiah 9
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Jeremiah 9:17-25

17Thus saith Yhwh of Armies, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning women, that they may come: 18And 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. 19For 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. 20Yet hear the word of Yhwh, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbour lamentation. 21For 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. 22Speak, Thus saith Yhwh, 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.

23Thus saith Yhwh, 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: 24But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am Yhwh which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith Yhwh.

25Behold, the days come, saith Yhwh, that I will punish all them which are circumcised with the uncircumcised;1

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  1. 1. Jeremiah 9:25 punish: Heb. visit upon. ↩

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