Jeremías 9:15-25

15 Así que ahora esto dice el Señor
de los Ejércitos Celestiales, Dios de Israel: ¡mira!, los alimentaré con amargura y les daré veneno para beber.

16 Los esparciré por todo el mundo, a lugares que ni ellos ni sus antepasados han oído nombrar, y aun allí los perseguiré con espada hasta que los haya destruido por completo».

17 Llanto en Jerusalén
Esto dice el Señor
de los Ejércitos Celestiales:
«Piensa en todo esto y llama a las que se les paga por llorar;
manda traer a las mujeres que lloran en los funerales.

18 ¡Rápido! ¡Comiencen a llorar!
Que las lágrimas fluyan de sus ojos.

19 Escuchen a los habitantes de Jerusalén
llorando desesperados:
“¡Estamos arruinados! ¡Estamos totalmente humillados!
Tenemos que abandonar nuestra tierra,
porque derribaron nuestras casas”».

20 Escuchen, ustedes mujeres, las palabras del Señor
;
abran sus oídos a lo que él tiene que decir.
Enseñen a sus hijas a gemir;
enséñense unas a otras a lamentarse.

21 Pues la muerte se ha deslizado a través de nuestras ventanas
y ha entrado a nuestras mansiones.
Ha acabado con la flor de nuestra juventud:
los niños ya no juegan en las calles,
y los jóvenes ya no se reúnen en las plazas.

22 Esto dice el Señor
:
«Se esparcirán cadáveres a través de los campos como montones de estiércol,
como manojos de grano después de la cosecha.
No quedará nadie para enterrarlos».

23 Esto dice el Señor
:
«No dejen que el sabio se jacte de su sabiduría,
o el poderoso, de su poder,
o el rico, de sus riquezas.

24 Pero los que desean jactarse
que lo hagan solamente en esto:
en conocerme verdaderamente y entender que yo soy el Señor
quien demuestra amor inagotable,
y trae justicia y rectitud a la tierra,
y que me deleito en estas cosas.
¡Yo, el Señor
, he hablado!

25 »Se acerca la hora —dice el Señor
—, cuando castigaré a todos los que están circuncidados en el cuerpo pero no en espíritu:

Jeremías 9:15-25 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JEREMIAH 9

This chapter is a continuation of the judgments of God upon the Jews for their sins and transgressions herein mentioned; illustrated by the lamentation of the prophet; by calling for the mourning women, and upon other women that had lost their husbands or children, with an intimation that none of any rank and class should escape. The prophet is introduced mourning over the destruction of his people, Jer 9:1, and as uneasy at his stay with them, because of their uncleanness, treachery, lying, unfaithfulness, and deceit, Jer 9:2-6, wherefore the Lord threatens to melt and try them; and for their deceitfulness particularly to visit them, and avenge himself on them, Jer 9:7-9, the destruction is described by the desolation of the mountains and habitations of the wilderness; they being so burnt up, that there were neither grass upon them, nor beasts nor birds to be seen or heard about them; and of Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, so that there was no inhabitant in them, Jer 9:10,11, upon which a wise man is inquired after, to give the true reason of all this, Jer 9:12 but none appearing, the Lord gives it himself; which were their disobedience to his law, and their worship of idols, following the imagination of their own hearts, Jer 9:13,14 wherefore they are threatened to be fed with wormwood and gall; to be scattered among the nations, and a sword sent after them to their utter consumption, Jer 9:15,16, hence, for the certainty of it, mourning women are ordered to be called for in haste, to assist them in their mourning, on account of their distress, Jer 9:17-19, and such as were mothers of children are bid to teach their daughters and neighbours lamentation, because of the children and young men cut off by death, and for the carcasses of men that should fall as dung in the field, and as the handful after the harvestman, Jer 9:20-22, and it is suggested that none should escape; not the wise man by any art or cunning he was master of; nor the strong man by his strength; nor the rich man by his riches; and therefore ought not either of them to glory in these things, but in the Lord, as exercising lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth, Jer 9:23,24, and the chapter is concluded with a strong asseveration, that the wicked, both circumcised and uncircumcised, should be punished, Jer 9:25,26.