dynamicbible/bibles/asv/24-9.json

{"ch":9,"vss":[{"v":1,"w":[{"t":"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!"}]},{"v":2,"w":[{"t":"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."}]},{"v":3,"w":[{"t":"And 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 know not me, saith Jehovah."}]},{"v":4,"w":[{"t":"Take ye heed every one of his neighbor, and trust ye not in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go about with slanders."}]},{"v":5,"w":[{"t":"And they will deceive every one his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they weary themselves to commit iniquity."}]},{"v":6,"w":[{"t":"Thy habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith Jehovah."}]},{"v":7,"w":[{"t":"Therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how [else] should I do, because of the daughter of my people?"}]},{"v":8,"w":[{"t":"Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaketh deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart he layeth wait for him."}]},{"v":9,"w":[{"t":"Shall I not visit them for these things? saith Jehovah; shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?"}]},{"v":10,"w":[{"t":"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 passeth through; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the birds of the heavens and the beasts are fled, they are gone."}]},{"v":11,"w":[{"t":"And I will make Jerusalem heaps, a dwelling-place of jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant."}]},{"v":12,"w":[{"t":"Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and [who is] he to whom the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken, that he may declare it? wherefore is the land perished and burned up like a wilderness, so that none passeth through?"}]},{"v":13,"w":[{"t":"And Jehovah saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein,"}]},{"v":14,"w":[{"t":"but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart, and after the Baalim, which their fathers taught them;"}]},{"v":15,"w":[{"t":"therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink."}]},{"v":16,"w":[{"t":"I will scatter them also among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them."}]},{"v":17,"w":[{"t":"Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for the skilful women, that they may come:"}]},{"v":18,"w":[{"t":"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."}]},{"v":19,"w":[{"t":"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."}]},{"v":20,"w":[{"t":"Yet hear the word of Jehovah, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth; and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbor lamentation."}]},{"v":21,"w":[{"t":"For death is come up into our windows, it is entered into our palaces; to cut off the children from without, [and] the young men from the streets."}]},{"v":22,"w":[{"t":"Speak, Thus saith Jehovah, The dead bodies of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman; and none shall gather [them]."}]},{"v":23,"w":[{"t":"Thus saith Jehovah, 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;"}]},{"v":24,"w":[{"t":"but let him that glorieth glory in this, that he hath understanding, and knoweth me, that I am Jehovah who exerciseth lovingkindness, justice, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith Jehovah."}]},{"v":25,"w":[{"t":"Behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that I will punish all them that are circumcised in [their] uncircumcision:"}]},{"v":26,"w":[{"t":"Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that have the corners [of their hair] cut off, that dwell in the wilderness; for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart."}]}]}