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Jeremiah 9:10

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

I will raise weeping and a lament over the mountains, a dirge over the wilderness grazing land, for they have been so scorched that no one passes through. The sound of cattle is no longer heard. From the birds of the sky to the animals, everything has fled #– #they have gone away.

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How long will the land mourn and the grass of every field wither? Because of the evil of its residents, animals and birds have been swept away, for the people have said, ‘He cannot see what our end will be.’  ,


For this reason the land mourns, and everyone who lives in it languishes, along with the wild animals  and the birds of the sky; even the fish of the sea disappear.


I will make the land a desolate waste,  and its proud strength will come to an end.  The mountains of Israel  will become desolate, with no one passing through.


No human foot will pass through it, and no animal foot will pass through it.  It will be uninhabited for forty years.


‘Suppose I allow dangerous animals  to pass through the land and depopulate it so that it becomes desolate, with no one passing through it for fear of the animals.


Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard; they have trampled my plot of land. They have turned my desirable plot into a desolate wasteland.


Cut off the hair of your sacred vow  , and throw it away. Raise up a dirge on the barren heights,  for the Lord has rejected and abandoned the generation under his wrath.”


My eyes are worn out from weeping; I am churning within. My heart is poured out in grief  , because of the destruction of my dear people, because infants and nursing babies faint in the streets of the city.


I weep because of these things; my eyes flow  with tears. For there is no one nearby to comfort me, no one to keep me alive. My children are desolate because the enemy has prevailed.


For the land is full of adulterers; the land mourns  because of the curse, and the grazing lands in the wilderness have dried up. Their way of life  has become evil, and their power is not rightly used,


Wild donkeys stand on the barren heights panting for air like jackals. Their eyes fail because there are no green plants.


My joy has flown away; grief has settled on me. My heart is sick.


They stopped asking, ‘Where is the  Lord who brought us from the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and ravines, through a land of drought and darkness, a land no one travelled through and where no one lived? ’


For your waste and desolate places and your land marked by ruins will now be indeed too small for the inhabitants, and those who swallowed you up will be far away.


See, I will make you into a sharp threshing board, new, with many teeth. You will thresh mountains and pulverise them and make hills into chaff.


For a nation from the north will attack her; it will make her land desolate. No one will be living in it – both people and animals will escape.  ,


‘Now, son of man, lament for Tyre.


Dress in sackcloth and lament,  you priests; wail,  you ministers of the altar. Come and spend the night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God, because grain and drink offerings are withheld from the house of your God.


I call to you,  Lord, for fire has consumed the pastures of the wilderness, and flames have devoured all the trees of the orchard.


Listen to this message that I am singing for you, a lament,  house of Israel:


Therefore the Lord, the God of Armies, the Lord, says: There will be wailing in all the public squares; they will cry out in anguish  in all the streets. The farmer will be called on to mourn, and professional mourners  , to wail.


In that day one will take up  a taunt against you and lament mournfully,   saying, ‘We are totally ruined! He measures out the allotted land of my people. How he removes it from me! He allots our fields  to traitors.’


The young lions have roared at him; they have roared loudly. They have laid waste his land. His cities are in ruins, without inhabitants.


They have made it a desolation. It mourns, desolate, before me. All the land is desolate, but no one takes it to heart.


because of Mount Zion, which lies desolate and has jackals prowling in it.


Wherever you live the cities will be in ruins and the high places will be desolate, so that your altars will lie in ruins and be desecrated,  your idols smashed and obliterated, your shrines cut down, and what you have made wiped out.


Therefore, because of you, Zion will be ploughed like a field, Jerusalem will become ruins, and the temple’s mountain will be a high thicket.





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