{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/dbt/jeremiah/9","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-27T03:38:58.926Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DBT","book":"Jeremiah","bookSlug":"jeremiah","chapter":9,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":8,"nextChapter":10,"totalChapters":52,"totalVerses":26},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Oh that my head were waters, and mine eye a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Oh that I had in the wilderness a traveller's lodging-place, that I might leave my people, and go away from them! For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"And they bend their tongue, their bow of falsehood, and not for fidelity are they valiant in the land; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith Jehovah."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Take ye heed every one of his friend, and confide not in any brother; for every brother only supplanteth, and every friend goeth about with slander."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"And they act deceitfully every one with his neighbour, and speak not the truth: they teach their tongue to speak falsehood, they weary themselves with perverse dealing."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Thy habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith Jehovah."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how else could I do for the daughter of my people?"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Their tongue is a murderous arrow; it speaketh deceit. A man speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in his heart he layeth his ambush."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Shall I not visit them for these things? saith Jehovah; shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"For the mountains will I take up weeping and wailing, and for the pastures of the wilderness, a lamentation; for they are burnt up, so that none passeth through them; and the voice of the cattle is not heard. Both the fowl of the heavens and the beasts are fled; they are gone."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"And I will make Jerusalem heaps, a dwelling-place of jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Who is a wise man, that he may understand this? and he to whom the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken, that he may declare it? Why is the land perished, burnt up like a wilderness, so that none passeth through?"},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"And Jehovah saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not hearkened unto my voice, nor walked in it,"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart, and after the Baals, as their fathers taught them;"},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will feed this people with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink,"},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"and will scatter them among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Consider, and call for the mourning women, that they may come, and send for the skilful women, that they may come;"},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"and let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids pour forth waters."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled, sorely put to shame! For we have forsaken the land, for they have cast down our dwellings."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"Hear then the word of Jehovah, ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and each one her companion lamentation."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"For death is come up through our windows, is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from the street, the young men from the broadways."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"Speak, Thus saith Jehovah: Yea, the carcases of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the reaper, and there shall be none to gather."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"Thus saith Jehovah: Let not the wise glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty glory in his might; let not the rich glory in his riches:"},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"but let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am Jehovah, who exercise loving-kindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth; for in these things I delight, saith Jehovah."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"Behold, days are coming, saith Jehovah, when I will visit all them that are circumcised with the uncircumcised;"},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that have the corners of their beard cut off, that dwell in the wilderness: for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart."}],"citation":{"inline":"Jeremiah 9 (DBT)","markdown":"[Jeremiah 9](https://primebible.com/dbt/jeremiah/9)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DBT. https://primebible.com/dbt/jeremiah/9 (accessed 2026-05-27)."}}