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Jeremiah 9:19

New English Translation

For the sound of wailing is soon to be heard in Zion. They will wail, ‘We are utterly ruined! We are completely disgraced! For our houses have been torn down and we must leave our land.’”

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You complacent women, get up and listen to me! You carefree daughters, pay attention to what I say!

Then the Lord said to me, “Even if Moses and Samuel stood before me pleading for these people, I would not feel pity for them! Get them away from me! Tell them to go away!

“Israel is not a slave, is he? He was not born into slavery, was he? If not, why then is he being carried off?

Look! The enemy is approaching like gathering clouds. The roar of his chariots is like that of a whirlwind. His horses move more swiftly than eagles.” I cry out, “We are doomed, for we will be destroyed!”

I see one destruction after another taking place, so that the whole land lies in ruins. I see our tents suddenly destroyed, their curtains torn down in a mere instant.

And I will drive you out of my sight just like I drove out your relatives, the people of Israel.’”

But I am not really the one being troubled!” says the Lord. “Rather they are bringing trouble on themselves to their own shame!

So, mourn, you people of this nation. Cut off your hair and throw it away. Sing a song of mourning on the hilltops. For the Lord has decided to reject and forsake this generation that has provoked his wrath!’”

People cry to them, “Turn away! You are unclean! Turn away! Turn away! Don’t touch us!” So they have fled and wander about; but the nations say, “They may not stay here any longer.” פ (Pe)

Our inheritance is turned over to strangers; foreigners now occupy our homes.

“You, son of man, sing a lament for Tyre.

Therefore the land has become unclean and I have brought the punishment for its iniquity upon it, so that the land has vomited out its inhabitants.

So do not make the land vomit you out because you defile it just as it has vomited out the nations that were before you.

“‘You must be sure to obey all my statutes and regulations, so that the land to which I am about to bring you to take up residence there does not vomit you out.

But you are the ones who will be forced to leave! For this land is not secure! Sin will thoroughly destroy it!

In that day people will sing this taunt song to you – they will mock you with this lament: ‘We are completely destroyed; they sell off the property of my people. How they remove it from me! They assign our fields to the conqueror.’

You will feel your way along at noon like the blind person does in darkness and you will not succeed in anything you do; you will be constantly oppressed and continually robbed, with no one to save you.




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