{"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/web/jeremiah/9","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-10T00:41:06.040Z"},"reference":{"translation":"WEB","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 my eyes a spring 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 are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"They bend their tongue, [as it were] their bow, for falsehood; and they are grown strong in the land, but not for truth: for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don't know me, says Yahweh."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Take heed everyone of his neighbor, and don't trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go about with slanders."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"They will deceive everyone his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they weary themselves to commit iniquity."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Your habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, says Yahweh."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Therefore thus says Yahweh of Armies, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how [else] should I do, because of the daughter of my people?"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks deceit: one speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart he lays wait for him."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Shall I not visit them for these things? says Yahweh; 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 pastures of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none passes through; neither can men hear the voice of the livestock; both the birds of the sky and the animals are fled, they are gone."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"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 the wise man, that may understand this? and [who is] he to whom the mouth of Yahweh has spoken, that he may declare it? why is the land perished and burned up like a wilderness, so that none passes through?"},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Yahweh says, 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 stubbornness of their own heart, and after the Baals, which their fathers taught them;"},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"therefore thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"I will scatter them also among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known; and I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Thus says Yahweh of Armies, Consider, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for the skillful 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 gush out with waters."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we ruined! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because they have cast down our dwellings."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"Yet hear the word of Yahweh, you women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth; and teach your daughters wailing, and everyone her neighbor lamentation."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"For death is come up into our windows, it is entered into our palaces; to cut off the children from outside, [and] the young men from the streets."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"Speak, Thus says Yahweh, The dead bodies of men shall fall as dung on the open field, and as the handful after the harvester; and none shall gather [them]."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"Thus says Yahweh, Don't let the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, don't let the rich man glory in his riches;"},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"but let him who glories glory in this, that he has understanding, and knows me, that I am Yahweh who exercises loving kindness, justice, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, says Yahweh."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will punish all those who are circumcised in [their] uncircumcision:"},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that have the corners [of their hair] cut off, who dwell in the wilderness; for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart."}],"citation":{"inline":"Jeremiah 9 (WEB)","markdown":"[Jeremiah 9](https://primebible.com/web/jeremiah/9)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* WEB. https://primebible.com/web/jeremiah/9 (accessed 2026-06-10)."}}