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Jeremiah 9:19

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

For a sound of lamentation is heard from Zion: How devastated we are. We are greatly ashamed, for we have abandoned the land; our dwellings have been torn down.

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Look, he advances like clouds; his chariots are like a storm. His horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us, for we are ruined!


so that at noon you will grope as a blind person gropes in the dark.  You will not be successful in anything you do. You will only be oppressed and robbed continually, and no one will help you.


Get up and leave, for this is not your place of rest because defilement  brings destruction – a grievous destruction!


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.’


Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.


‘Stay away! Unclean! ’ people shouted at them. ‘Away, away! Don’t touch us! ’ So they wandered aimlessly. It was said among the nations, ‘They can stay here no longer.’


Disaster after disaster  is reported because the whole land is destroyed. Suddenly my tents are destroyed, my tent curtains, in a moment.


Is Israel a slave? Was he born into slavery? Why else has he become a prey?


‘You are to keep all my statutes and all my ordinances, and do them, so that the land where I am bringing you to live will not vomit you out.


If you defile the land, it will vomit  you out as it has vomited out the nations that were before you.


The land has become defiled, so I am punishing it for its iniquity, and the land will vomit out its inhabitants.


I will banish you from my presence, just as I banished all of your brothers, all the descendants of Ephraim.”


But are they really provoking me? ’  This is the Lord’s declaration. ‘Isn’t it they themselves being provoked to disgrace? ’


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.”


Then the Lord said to me, ‘Even if Moses and Samuel  should stand before me,  my heart would not go out to these people. Send them from my presence, and let them go.


Stand up, you complacent women; listen to me. Pay attention to what I say, you overconfident daughters.


‘Now, son of man, lament for Tyre.





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