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Jeremiah 9 Summary
Mourning the People's Deception
Jeremiah weeps for the slain of his people and wishes to flee into the wilderness, for all are adulterers and treacherous. The people bend their tongues like bows for lies, proceeding from evil to evil while deceiving one another. The Lord will melt them and try them for their deception, scattering them among nations they do not know and sending the sword after them. The Lord will make Jerusalem heaps and cause her cities to become desolate. Yet He reveals the true wisdom is to understand and know Him, that He exercises lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in which things He delights.
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Jeremiah 9:1
“Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!”
Jeremiah 9:3
“And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD.”
Jeremiah 9:16
“I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them.”
Jeremiah 9:24
“But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the LORD.”
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