{"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/kjv/jeremiah/9","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T11:33:20.009Z"},"reference":{"translation":"KJV","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 eyes 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 lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they <i>be</i> all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"And they bend their tongues <i>like</i> their bow <i>for</i> 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."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, <i>and</i> weary themselves to commit iniquity."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Thine habitation <i>is</i> in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"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?"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Their tongue <i>is as</i> an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: <i>one</i> speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Shall I not visit them for these <i>things</i>? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"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 <i>them</i>; neither can <i>men</i> hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"And I will make Jerusalem heaps, <i>and</i> a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Who <i>is</i> the wise man, that may understand this? and <i>who is he</i> to whom the mouth of the LORD hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perisheth <i>and</i> is burned up like a wilderness, that none passeth through?"},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"And the LORD saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein;"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:"},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, <i>even</i> this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning <i>women</i>, 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 gush out with waters."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"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 <i>us</i> out."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"For death is come up into our windows, <i>and</i> is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, <i>and</i> the young men from the streets."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"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 <i>them</i>."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise <i>man</i> glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty <i>man</i> glory in his might, let not the rich <i>man</i> glory in his riches:"},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I <i>am</i> the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these <i>things</i> I delight, saith the LORD."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will punish all <i>them which are</i> circumcised with the uncircumcised;"},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all <i>that are</i> in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all <i>these</i> nations <i>are</i> uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel <i>are</i> uncircumcised in the heart."}],"citation":{"inline":"Jeremiah 9 (KJV)","markdown":"[Jeremiah 9](https://primebible.com/kjv/jeremiah/9)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* KJV. https://primebible.com/kjv/jeremiah/9 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}