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!
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 be* all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
And they bend their tongues like* their bow for* 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 \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w**.
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.
And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and* weary themselves to commit iniquity.
Thine habitation is* in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w**.
Therefore thus saith the \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w** of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people?
Their tongue is as* an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: one* speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait.
¶ Shall I not visit them for these things*? saith the \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w**: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
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 them;* neither can men* hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone.
And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and* a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.
¶ Who is* the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he* to whom the mouth of the \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w** hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perisheth and* is burned up like a wilderness, that none passeth through?
And the \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w** saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein;
But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:
Therefore thus saith the \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w** of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even* this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.
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.
¶ Thus saith the \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w** of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning women*, that they may come:
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.
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 us* out.
Yet hear the word of the \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w**, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbour lamentation.
For death is come up into our windows, and* is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and* the young men from the streets.
Speak, Thus saith the \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w**, Even the carcases of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman, and none shall gather them*.
¶ Thus saith the \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w**, Let not the wise man* glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man* glory in his might, let not the rich man* glory in his riches:
But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am* the \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w** which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things* I delight, saith the \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w**.
¶ Behold, the days come, saith the \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w**, that I will punish all them which are* circumcised with the uncircumcised;
Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that are* in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all these* nations are* uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are* uncircumcised in the heart.