How do you say, We are wise, and the Law of Yahweh is with us? Behold, certainly the lying pen of the scribes has made it falsehood. The wise men are shamed, they are overcome with fear and taken: see, they have given up the word of Yahweh; and what use is their wisdom to them? So I will give their wives to others, and their fields to those who will take them for themselves: for everyone, from the least to the greatest, is given up to getting money; from the priest even to the prophet, everyone is false. And they have healed the hurt of the daughter of My people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace. Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No! They were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall; in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, says Yahweh. I will utterly consume them, says Yahweh: there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig-tree, and the leaf shall fade; and the things that I have given them shall pass away from them.
Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fortified cities, and let us be silent there; for Yahweh our Almighty has put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against Yahweh. We looked for peace, but no righteousness came; and for a time of healing, and, behold, dismay! The loud breathing of the horses comes to our ears from Dan: at the sound of the outcry of his war-horses, all the land is shaking with fear; for they have come, and have made a meal of the land and everything in it; the town and the people living in it.
See, I will send snakes and poison-snakes among you, against which the wonder-worker has no power; and they will give you wounds which may not be made well, says Yahweh.
Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! my heart is faint within me. Behold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land that is very far off: is not Yahweh in Zion? is not her King in her?
Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with foreign gods?
The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not redeemed. For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt: I mourn; dismay hath taken hold on me. Is there no life-giving oil in Gilead? is there no expert in medical arts? why then have my people not been made well? Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people! If only I had in the waste land a night's resting-place for travellers, so that I might go away, far from my people! for they are all untrue, a band of FALSE men.
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 Me not, says Yahweh.
Let everyone keep watch on his neighbour, and put no faith in any brother: for every brother will certainly be tricking his brother, and every neighbour will go about saying evil. And they act deceitfully every one with his neighbour, and speak not the truth: they teach their tongue to speak falsehood, they weary themselves with perverse dealing.
Your habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know Me, says Yahweh. Therefore this says Yahweh of Armies, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how else should I do, because of the daughter of My people? Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks deceit: one speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart he lays wait for him. Shall I not punish them for these things? says Yahweh; shall I not take vengence on such a nation as this? For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast have fled; they are gone.I will make Yerusalem heaps, a dwelling place of jackals; and I will make the cities of Yahdah a desolation, without inhabitant. Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of Yahweh has spoken, that he may declare it? why is the land perished and burned up like a wilderness, so that none passes through?
Yahweh says, Because they have forsaken my instruction which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein, but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart, and after the Baals ('the LORD'), which their fathers taught them; therefore thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink. I will scatter them also among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known; and I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them.
This says Yahweh of Armies, Consider, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for the skillful women, that they may come: 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. For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we laid waste! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out. Yet hear the word of Yahweh, you women, and let your ear receive the word of His mouth; and teach your daughters wailing, and everyone her neighbor a song of grief. For death is come up into our windows, it is entered into our palaces; to cut off the children from outside, and the young men from the streets. Speak, This says Yahweh, The dead bodies of men shall fall as dung on the open field, and as the handful after the harvester; and none shall gather them. This says Yahweh, Don't let the wise man boast in his wisdom, neither let the strong man boast in his strength, don't let the rich man boast of his riches; but let him who boast boast in this, that he has understanding, and knows Me, that I am Yahweh who exercises loving kindness, justice, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, says Yahweh (Yeremyah 8:8-).
Praise Yahweh when He comes! He will destroy the wicked and the meek shall inherit the earth.
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