Jeremiah 9:1-6

1 O that my head were a spring of water, and my eyes a fountain of tears, so that I might weep day and night for the slain of my poor people!
2 O that I had in the desert a traveler's lodging place, that I might leave my people and go away from them! For they are all adulterers, a band of traitors.
3 They bend their tongues like bows; they have grown strong in the land for falsehood, and not for truth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, says the Lord.
4 Beware of your neighbors, and put no trust in any of your kin; for all your kin are supplanters, and every neighbor goes around like a slanderer.
5 They all deceive their neighbors, and no one speaks the truth; they have taught their tongues to speak lies; they commit iniquity and are too weary to repent.
6 Oppression upon oppression, deceit upon deceit! They refuse to know me, says the Lord.

Footnotes 6

  • [a]. Ch 8.23 in Heb
  • [b]. Ch 9.1 in Heb
  • [c]. Heb [in a brother]
  • [d]. Heb [for every brother]
  • [e]. Cn Compare Gk: Heb [they weary themselves with iniquity. +V6+WYour dwelling]
  • [f]. Cn: Heb [Your dwelling in the midst of deceit]
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