Verse 21
Jeremiah 9:21
World English Bible
21
For death has come up into our windows.
It has entered into our palaces
to cut off the children from outside,
and the young men from the streets.
Original Language Text
hebrew
דַּבֵּ֗ר כֹּ֚ה נְאֻם יְהוָ֔ה וְ/נָֽפְלָה֙ נִבְלַ֣ת הָֽ/אָדָ֔ם כְּ/דֹ֖מֶן עַל פְּנֵ֣י הַ/שָּׂדֶ֑ה וּ/כְ/עָמִ֛יר מֵ/אַחֲרֵ֥י הַ/קֹּצֵ֖ר וְ/אֵ֥ין מְאַסֵּֽף
English Translation
Thus says the Lord: and the carcass of man shall fall like dung on the face of the field, and like the gleaning after the harvest, and there shall be no gatherer.
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Chapter 9 Context
1
Oh that my head were waters,
and my eyes a spring of tears,
that I might weep day and night
for the...
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2
Oh that I had in the wilderness
a lodging place of wayfaring men;
that I might leave my people,
and...
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3
“They bend their tongue,
as their bow, for falsehood.
They have grown strong in the land,
but not fo...
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4
“Everyone beware of his neighbor,
and don’t trust in any brother;
for every brother will utterly sup...
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5
Everyone will deceive their neighbors,
and will not speak the truth.
They have taught their tongue t...
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6
Your habitation is in the middle of deceit.
Through deceit, they refuse to know me,” says Yahweh.
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7
Therefore Yahweh of Armies says,
“Behold, I will melt them and test them;
for how should I deal with...
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8
Their tongue is a deadly arrow.
It speaks deceit.
One speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mout...
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9
Shouldn’t I punish them for these things?” says Yahweh.
“Shouldn’t my soul be avenged on a nation su...
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10
I will weep and wail for the mountains,
and lament for the pastures of the wilderness,
because they...
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11
“I will make Jerusalem heaps,
a dwelling place of jackals.
I will make the cities of Judah a desolat...
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12
Who is wise enough to understand this? Who is he to whom the mouth of Yahweh has spoken, that he may...
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13
Yahweh says, “Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voic...
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14
but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart, and after the Baals, which their fathers...
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15
Therefore Yahweh of Armies, the God (Elohim) of Israel, says, “Behold, I will feed them, even this p...
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16
I will scatter them also among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known; and I wi...
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17
Yahweh of Armies says,
“Consider, and call for the mourning women, that they may come;
and send for...
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18
Let them make haste,
and take up a wailing for us,
that our eyes may run down with tears,
and our ey...
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19
For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion,
‘How we are ruined!
We are greatly confounded,
because...
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20
Yet hear Yahweh’s word, you women.
Let your ear receive the word of his mouth.
Teach your daughters...
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21
For death has come up into our windows.
It has entered into our palaces
to cut off the children from...
22
Speak, “Yahweh says,
“‘The dead bodies of men will fall as dung on the open field,
and as the handfu...
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23
Yahweh says,
“Don’t let the wise man glory in his wisdom.
Don’t let the mighty man glory in his migh...
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24
But let him who glories glory in this,
that he has understanding, and knows me,
that I am Yahweh who...
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25
“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will punish all those who are circumcised only in thei...
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26
Egypt, Judah, Edom, the children of Ammon, Moab, and all who have the corners of their hair cut off,...
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