1O 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!

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Jeremiah 8:21, Jeremiah 8:22, Jeremiah 13:17, Isaiah 22:4, Jeremiah 8:21

2O that I had a traveller’s lodge in the wilderness, That I might leave my people, and go from them! For they are all adulterers; An assembly of revolters.

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Jeremiah 5:7, Jeremiah 5:8, Jeremiah 23:10, Jeremiah 5:7, Jeremiah 5:8

3They bend their tongues, like their bows, for lies, And not by truth do they grow mighty in the earth; They proceed from wickedness to wickedness, And have no regard to me, saith Jehovah.

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Jeremiah 9:8, Jeremiah 9:8, Jeremiah 4:22, Judges 2:10, Romans 3:13

4Be on your guard each one against his neighbor, And trust ye not in any brother; For every brother will supplant, And every neighbor will slander.

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Micah 7:5, Micah 7:6, Micah 7:5, Micah 7:6, Jeremiah 6:28

5They deceive every one his neighbor, And do not speak the truth; They have accustomed their tongues to speak lies; They weary themselves in doing iniquity.

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Micah 6:12, Isaiah 57:10, Job 15:5, Habakkuk 2:13, Isaiah 59:13

6Thy habitation is in the midst of deceit, [O prophet!] Through deceit they refuse to know me, saith Jehovah.

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Jeremiah 13:10, Jeremiah 13:10, Romans 1:28, Jeremiah 20:10, Job 21:14

7Therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Behold I will melt them and try them; For what else can I do on account of the daughter of my people?

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Isaiah 1:25, Isaiah 1:25, Jeremiah 6:27, Malachi 3:3, Isaiah 48:10

8Their tongue is a deadly arrow; Every one of them speaketh treachery; With their mouth they speak peace to their neighbor, But in their heart they lay snares for him.

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Psalms 28:3, Psalms 28:3, Proverbs 26:24, Proverbs 26:26, Proverbs 26:24

9Shall I not punish them for these things? saith Jehovah; Shall I not be avenged on such a nation as this?

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Jeremiah 5:9, Jeremiah 5:29, Jeremiah 5:9, Jeremiah 5:29, Isaiah 1:24

10For the mountains will I lift up a weeping and wailing, And for the pastures of the plains a lamentation, For they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; No more is heard the voice of the cattle; Both the birds of the heavens and the beasts have fled, and are gone.

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Jeremiah 12:4, Jeremiah 12:4, Hosea 4:3, Hosea 4:3, Jeremiah 7:29

11I will make Jerusalem heaps of stones, The dwelling-place of jackals; And I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.

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Isaiah 25:2, Isaiah 25:2, Jeremiah 10:22, Jeremiah 51:37, Isaiah 13:22

12Who is the wise man, that he may understand this, And he to whom the mouth of the Lord hath spoken, that he may declare it? Why is it that the land perisheth, That it is burned up like a desert, which none passeth through?

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Hosea 14:9, Hosea 14:9, Psalms 107:43, Psalms 107:43, Deuteronomy 32:29

13Jehovah himself hath said: It is because they have forsaken my law, Which I set before them, And have not hearkened to my voice, Nor walked according to it;

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2 Chronicles 7:19, 2 Chronicles 7:19, Jeremiah 22:9, Jeremiah 22:9, Ezra 9:10

14But have walked after the obstinacy of their own heart, And after the Baals, as their fathers taught them.

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Jeremiah 7:24, Jeremiah 3:17, Jeremiah 7:24, Jeremiah 3:17, 1 Peter 1:18

15Therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will feed this people with wormwood, And give them water of hemlock to drink.

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Jeremiah 8:14, Jeremiah 8:14, Psalms 80:5, Lamentations 3:15, Psalms 80:5

16I will also scatter them among nations Which neither they nor their fathers have known, And I will send after them the sword, Till I have made an end of them.

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Deuteronomy 28:64, Leviticus 26:33, Ezekiel 5:2, Ezekiel 5:12, Deuteronomy 28:64

17Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come, And send to the skilful ones, that they may come;

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Amos 5:16, Amos 5:17, Amos 5:16, Amos 5:17, Ecclesiastes 12:5

18Let them make haste, and lift up a wailing for us, That our eyes may run down with tears, And our eyelids gush forth with waters.

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Jeremiah 14:17, Jeremiah 9:1, Jeremiah 14:17, Jeremiah 9:1, Isaiah 22:4

19Behold, a voice of wailing is heard from Zion: "How are we spoiled! How are we put to shame! We must leave our native land; They have cast down our habitations."

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Jeremiah 4:13, Jeremiah 4:13, Ezekiel 7:16, Ezekiel 7:18, Deuteronomy 28:29

20Hear, O ye women, the word of Jehovah! Let your ear receive the word of his mouth! Teach your daughters a lamentation, And every one her companion a mournful dirge!

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Luke 23:27, Luke 23:30, Luke 23:27, Luke 23:30, Job 22:22

21For death cometh in through our windows, It entereth our palaces; It cutteth off the children from the street, And the young men from the public places.

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Jeremiah 6:11, Jeremiah 6:11, Ezekiel 9:5, Ezekiel 9:6, Jeremiah 15:7

22Declare it, saith Jehovah! The dead bodies of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, And as the handful behind the reaper, Which none gathereth up.

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Jeremiah 8:2, Jeremiah 8:2, Jeremiah 25:33, Jeremiah 25:33, Psalms 83:10

23Thus saith Jehovah: Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, Nor let the mighty glory in his might, Nor let the rich glory in his riches!

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1 Corinthians 1:27, 1 Corinthians 1:29, 1 Corinthians 1:27, 1 Corinthians 1:29, Isaiah 5:21

24But let him that glorieth glory in this, That he hath regard to me, and knoweth me, That I am Jehovah, who exercise loving-kindness, Justice, and righteousness upon the earth; For in these do I delight, saith Jehovah.

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2 Corinthians 10:17, 2 Corinthians 10:17, Galatians 6:14, Galatians 6:14, 1 Corinthians 1:31

25Behold the days come, saith Jehovah, That I will punish all the circumcised with the uncircumcised,

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Romans 2:8, Romans 2:9, Romans 2:25, Romans 2:26, Galatians 5:2

26Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, And the sons of Ammon and Moab, And all with shaven cheeks, that dwell in the wilderness. For all the nations are uncircumcised, And all the house of Israel is uncircumcised in heart.

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Jeremiah 4:4, Leviticus 26:41, Jeremiah 4:4, Leviticus 26:41, Isaiah 19:24