Jeremías 9:1-10

1 Quién me diera que mi cabeza se hiciera aguas, y mis ojos fuente de lágrimas, para que yo llorara día y noche por los muertos de la hija de mi pueblo.

2 Quién me diera en el desierto un albergue de caminantes, para dejar a mi pueblo y alejarme de ellos. Porque todos ellos son adúlteros, una asamblea de traidores.

3 Tienden su lengua como su arco; la mentira y no la verdad prevalece en la tierra; porque de mal en mal proceden, y a mí no me conocendeclara el SEÑOR.

4 Guárdese cada uno de su prójimo, y no confíe en ningún hermano; porque todo hermano obra con engaño, y todo prójimo anda calumniando.

5 Cada uno engaña a su prójimo, y no habla la verdad, han enseñado sus lenguas a hablar mentiras; se afanan por cometer iniquidad.

6 Tu morada está en medio del engaño; por causa del engaño rehúsan conocermedeclara el SEÑOR.

7 Por tanto, así dice el SEÑOR de los ejércitos: He aquí, los refinaré y los probaré, porque ¿qué más puedo hacer con la hija de mi pueblo?

8 Saeta mortífera es su lengua, engaño habla; con su boca habla cada uno de paz a su prójimo, pero dentro de sí le tiende emboscada.

9 Por estas cosas ¿no los castigaré?declara el SEÑOR. De una nación como ésta ¿no se vengará mi alma?

10 Alzad por los montes lloro y lamentación, y una elegía por los pastos del desierto, porque han sido desolados; nadie pasa por ellos, ni se oye el bramido del ganado; desde las aves del cielo hasta las bestias han huido, se han ido.

Jeremías 9:1-10 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.

Footnotes

• [a]. As en la versin gr. (Sept.); en el T.M., Alzar