Verse
BSB
Berean Standard Bible
YLT
Young's Literal Translation
Oh,
that
my head were
a
spring
of
water
, and my
eyes
a fountain of tears !
I would
weep day and night over
the slain
daughter of my people.
Who
doth
make
my head waters
, And mine
eye
a fountain of tears ?
And
I weep by
day and by
night ,
For
the wounded
of
the
daughter of my people.
If
only
I
had
a
traveler’s
lodge
in the
wilderness ,
I would
abandon
my people and depart
from them, for they
are
all adulterers, a
crowd
of faithless
people
.
Who
doth
give
me
in a
wilderness A
lodging-place
of
travellers?
And
I leave
my people ,
and go
from them, For all of
them
`are'
adulterers, An
assembly
of treacherous
ones
.
“
They bend their tongues
like
bows;
lies
prevail
over
truth
in the land .
For they
proceed
from evil to
evil, and they do
not take
Me
into
account
, ”
declares
the
LORD.
And
they bend their tongue,
their
bow
`is'
a
lie,
And
not
for
stedfastness
have
they
been
mighty
in the land ,
For from evil unto
evil they
have
gone
forth
, And Me
they have
not known
, An
affirmation
of
Jehovah!
“Let
everyone
guard
against
his neighbor;
do not trust any
brother
, for every brother deals
craftily
, and
every friend spreads
slander.
Each
of
his friend
--
beware
ye,
And
on
any
brother,
do not trust, For every brother doth
utterly
supplant
, For
every friend slanderously
doth
walk,
Each one
betrays
his friend ;
no
one
tells
the
truth .
They have
taught their tongues
to lie;
they
wear
themselves
out
committing
iniquity.
And
each at
his friend they
mock,
And
truth they do
not
speak,
They
taught their tongue
to speak
falsehood,
To
commit
iniquity they
have
laboured
.
You
dwell
in the midst of deception;
in
their
deceit they refuse
to know Me, ”
declares
the
LORD
.
thy
dwelling
`is'
in the midst of deceit ,
Through
deceit
they refused
to know Me, An
affirmation
of
Jehovah
.
Therefore this
is
what
the
LORD
of Hosts says
: “Behold
, I will
refine
them and test
them, for what
else
can
I do because of the daughter of My people?
Therefore ,
thus
said
Jehovah
of Hosts: Lo
, I am
refining
them ,
and have
tried
them, For how
do
I do because of the daughter of My people?
Their tongues
are
deadly
arrows;
they
speak
deception.
With
his
mouth a
man
speaks
peace to
his
neighbor
, but
in his
heart he
sets
a
trap
for
him.
A
slaughtering
arrow
`is'
their tongue,
Deceit
it
hath
spoken
in
its
mouth ,
Peace with
its
neighbour
it
speaketh
, And
in its
heart it
layeth
its
ambush,
Should
I
not
punish
them
for these things ?
declares
the
LORD.
Should
I
not avenge
Myself
on
such
a nation as this? ”
For these things do
not I
see
after
them?
An
affirmation
of
Jehovah,
Against
a nation such
as this doth
not
My
soul
avenge
itself
?
I will
take
up a
weeping and wailing for the mountains,
a
dirge
over
the wilderness pasture
, for they have been scorched
so
no
one
passes
through
, and
the lowing
of cattle is
not
heard.
Both
the birds
of the air
and
the beasts
have fled ;
they have gone away
.
For
the
mountains
I lift
up weeping and wailing ,
And
for the habitations
of
the wilderness a
lamentation
, For they have been burnt
up
without
any
passing
over
, Nor
have
they
heard
the voice
of cattle ,
From
the fowl
of the heavens
unto
the beast
they
have fled ,
they have gone.
“
And I will
make Jerusalem a heap
of rubble
, a
haunt
for
jackals;
and I
will
make
the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant. ”
And I make Jerusalem become
heaps,
A habitation
of dragons
, And the cities of Judah I
make
a desolation, Without inhabitant.
Who is the man
wise enough
to
understand
this
? To whom has
the mouth of the
LORD
spoken,
that
he may
explain
it ?
Why
is
the land destroyed
and
scorched
like
a desert
, so
no
one
can
pass
through it?
Who `
is '
the wise man
? and
he
understandeth
this,
And
he
to whom the mouth of Jehovah
spake?
And
he doth
declare
it ,
For
what
hath
the land perished?
It
hath
been
burnt
up
as
a wilderness
, Without
any
passing
through .
And the
LORD
answered,
“It
is
because they
have
forsaken
My law ,
which
I set before them ;
they have not walked in it or
obeyed
My
voice.
And Jehovah
saith:
Because of
their
forsaking
My law that
I set before them ,
And
they have not hearkened
to
My
voice
nor
walked in it ,
Instead,
they have
followed
the stubbornness of their hearts
and gone
after the Baals
, as
their fathers taught them .”
And
they walk
after
the stubbornness of their heart,
And after the Baalim
, that
their fathers taught them ,
Therefore this
is
what
the
LORD
of Hosts, the
God of Israel ,
says
: “Behold
, I will
feed
this people wormwood and give
them poisoned
water
to drink .
Therefore ,
thus
said
Jehovah
of Hosts, God of Israel: Lo
, I am
causing
them
--
this people --
to
eat
wormwood ,
And I
have
caused
them to drink water
of
gall,
I will
scatter
them among the
nations that
neither
they nor
their fathers have
known
, and I
will
send
a
sword
after them until
I have finished
them off
. ”
And
I have
scattered
them among nations Which
they knew
not,
they
and
their fathers, And have
sent
after them the
sword,
Till
I have consumed
them.
This
is
what
the
LORD
of Hosts says
: “Take
note
, and summon
the wailing
women ;
send for
the
most
skillful
among
them.
Thus
said
Jehovah
of Hosts: Consider
ye
, and call
for
mourning
women,
And
they
come,
And
to
the wise
women send ,
and
they
come,
Let
them
come
quickly
and take
up a
lament
over
us ,
that
our eyes may
overflow
with
tears, and our eyelids may
gush
with
water
.
And they
hasten,
and
lift
up for
us a
wailing.
And
run
down
our eyes do
tears, And from
our eyelids do
waters
flow
.
For the
sound
of wailing is heard from Zion: ‘
How devastated
we are!
How
great
is
our
shame
! For
we have abandoned
the land because our
dwellings
have been
torn
down. ’”
For --
a
voice
of wailing is heard from Zion: How have
we been
spoiled
! We have been
greatly
ashamed,
Because
we
have
forsaken
the land ,
Because they
have cast
down our
tabernacles
.
Now
, O
women, hear
the
word of the
LORD.
Open
your ears
to
the
word of His mouth .
Teach your daughters to
wail
, and one
another
to
lament
.
But
hear
, ye
women, a
word of Jehovah,
And
your ear
receiveth
a
word of His mouth ,
And
teach ye
your daughters wailing
, and each
her
neighbour
lamentation
.
For death has
climbed
in
through
our windows ;
it has
entered
our fortresses
to cut off the children
from the
streets
, the
young men from the town
squares
.
For death hath
come
up
into
our windows ,
It hath
come
into
our palaces,
To cut off the suckling
from without
, Young men from the broad
places
.
Declare
that
this
is
what
the
LORD
says:
“
The corpses
of men
will
fall
like
dung upon
the open
field, like
newly
cut
grain
behind
the reaper, with
no
one
to
gather
it
. ”
Speak
thus
--
an
affirmation
of
Jehovah,
And
fallen
hath
the carcase
of man,
As
dung on
the face
of
the
field, And
as
a
handful
after
the reaper, And
there
is
none
gathering
.
This
is
what
the
LORD
says
: “
Let not the wise man
boast in his wisdom, nor the strong
man
in his strength
, nor
the wealthy
man
in his riches .
Thus
said
Jehovah
: Let not the wise boast himself
in his wisdom, Nor let
the mighty
boast
himself
in his might
, Let
not
the rich
boast
himself
in his riches ,
But let
him
who
boasts
boast
in this, that
he
understands
and knows
Me, that
I am the
LORD
, who
exercises
loving
devotion
, justice
and righteousness on
the earth —
for I
delight
in these things
, ”
declares
the
LORD
.
But --
in this let
the
boaster
boast
himself
, In
understanding
and knowing
Me, For
I `
am '
Jehovah
, doing
kindness
, Judgment,
and righteousness ,
in
the earth ,
For in these I
have
delighted
, An
affirmation
of
Jehovah
.
“Behold
, the
days are coming ,”
declares
the
LORD
, “when
I will
punish
all who
are
circumcised yet
uncircumcised:
Lo
, days are coming --
an
affirmation
of
Jehovah
, And
I have
laid
a
charge
on
all circumcised in
the
foreskin,
Egypt, Judah, Edom, Ammon, Moab, and all the inhabitants
of the desert
who clip
the hair
of
their
temples.
For all these
nations are uncircumcised, and the whole
house of Israel is
uncircumcised in heart .”
On
Egypt, and
on
Judah, and
on
Edom, And
on
the
sons
of
Ammon, and
on
Moab, And on
all cutting
the corner
`
of the beard',
Who are
dwelling
in
the wilderness,
For all the
nations `
are '
uncircumcised, And all
the house of Israel `are'
uncircumcised in heart !
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