These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
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Jeremiah 9
Tanakh 26 verses
- 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!
- 2 Oh that I were in the wilderness, In a lodging-place of wayfaring men, That I might leave my people, And go from them! For they are all adulterers, An of treacherous men.
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And they bend their tongue, their bow of falsehood; And they are grown mighty in the land, but not for ; For they proceed from evil to evil, And Me they not, Saith .
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Jeremiah 4:22 Judges 2:10 Jeremiah 9:8 Isaiah 59:13-15 Romans 3:13 1 Samuel 2:12 Isaiah 59:3-5 Jeremiah 7:26 Matthew 10:31-33 Jeremiah 9:5 Romans 1:16 Psalm 52:2-4 2 Corinthians 4:4-6 2 Timothy 3:13 Hosea 4:1-3 Mark 8:38 Jeremiah 31:34 Micah 7:3-5 John 8:54-55 Psalm 64:3-4 Jeremiah 22:16 Psalm 120:2-4 Jude 1:3 Revelation 12:11 Romans 1:28 John 17:3 Philippians 1:28 -
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Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, And trust ye not in any brother; For every brother acteth subtly, And every neighbour goeth about with slanders.
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Proverbs 26:24-25 Leviticus 19:16 Jeremiah 6:28 Micah 7:5-6 Psalm 12:2-3 Jeremiah 12:6 Proverbs 25:18 Genesis 27:35-36 Psalm 15:3 Proverbs 10:18 Genesis 32:28 Proverbs 6:16 1 Peter 2:1-2 Ezekiel 22:9 Luke 21:16 Matthew 10:21 Psalm 55:11-12 Matthew 10:17 Matthew 10:34-35 1 Thessalonians 4:6 Proverbs 6:19 - 5 And they deceive every one his neighbour, And they speak not; They have taught their tongue to speak lies, They weary themselves to commit iniquity.
- 6 Thy habitation is in the midst of deceit; Through deceit they refuse to Me, Saith .
- 7 Therefore thus saith of hosts: Behold, I will smelt them, and try them; For how else should I do, Because of the daughter of My people?
- 8 Their tongue is a sharpened arrow, It speaketh deceit; One speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, But in his he layeth wait for him.
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Shall I not punish them for these things? Saith ; Shall not My be avenged On such a nation as this?
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- 10 For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, And for the pastures of the wilderness a lamentation, Because they are burned up, so that none passeth through. And they not the voice of the cattle; Both the fowl of the and the beast Are fled, and gone.
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And I will make heaps, A lair of jackals; And I will make the cities of a desolation, Without an inhabitant.
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- 12 Who is the wise man, that he may understand this? And who is he to whom the mouth of hath spoken, that he may declare it? Wherefore is the land perished And laid waste like a wilderness, so that none passeth through?
- 13 And saith: Because they have forsaken My which I set before them, And have not hearkened to My voice, neither walked therein;
- 14 But have walked after the stubbornness of their own , And after the Baalim, which their fathers taught them.
- 15 Therefore thus saith of hosts, the of : Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, And give them water of gall to drink.
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I will scatter them also among the nations, Whom neither they nor their fathers have known; And I will send the sword after them, Till I have consumed them.
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Ezekiel 5:2 Deuteronomy 28:64 Leviticus 26:33 Ezekiel 5:12 Jeremiah 44:27 Jeremiah 13:24 Zechariah 7:14 Jeremiah 49:36-37 Psalm 106:27 James 1:1 Jeremiah 24:10 Deuteronomy 28:25 Deuteronomy 4:27 Jeremiah 15:2-4 Jeremiah 25:27 Ezekiel 14:17 Jeremiah 29:17 Ezekiel 20:23 Ezekiel 12:15 Deuteronomy 28:36 Nehemiah 1:8 Ezekiel 11:17 Deuteronomy 32:26 -
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Thus saith of hosts: Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; And send for the wise women, that they may come;
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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 eyelids gush out with waters.
- 19 For a voice of wailing is heard out of : ‘How are we undone! We are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, Because our dwellings have cast us out.’
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Yea, the of , O ye women, And let your ear receive the of His mouth, And teach your daughters wailing, And every one her neighbour lamentation:
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For death is come up into our windows, It is entered into our palaces, To cut off the children from the street, And the young men from the broad places.—
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Speak: Thus saith —And the carcasses of men fall As dung upon the open field, And as the handful after the harvestman, Which none gathereth.’
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Thus saith : Let not the wise man in his wisdom, Neither let the mighty man in his might, Let not the rich man in his riches;
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Ecclesiastes 9:11 1 Corinthians 1:27-29 Job 31:24-25 1 Corinthians 3:18-20 Romans 1:22 1 Kings 20:10-11 Isaiah 5:21 Mark 10:24 Zephaniah 1:18 1 Samuel 17:42 Psalm 62:10 Acts 12:22-23 Proverbs 11:4 Ezekiel 29:9 Daniel 3:15 Daniel 4:30-31 Isaiah 10:8 1 Samuel 17:4-10 Ezekiel 28:2-9 1 Timothy 6:10 James 3:14-16 Psalm 33:16-17 Job 5:12-14 Daniel 4:37 1 Corinthians 1:19-21 Deuteronomy 8:17 Psalm 49:16-18 Daniel 5:18-23 Ecclesiastes 2:19 Luke 12:19-20 Isaiah 10:12-13 Psalm 49:6-13 Ezekiel 7:19 Ecclesiastes 2:13-16 Isaiah 36:8-9 Psalm 52:6-7 Amos 2:14-16 -
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But let him that boasts boast in this, That he understandeth, and knoweth Me, That I am the who exercise , Justice, and , in the earth; For in these things I delight, Saith the .
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1 Corinthians 1:31 Micah 7:18 2 Corinthians 10:17 Galatians 6:14 1 John 5:20 Psalm 44:8 Psalm 36:5-7 Psalm 51:1 Psalm 145:7-8 Isaiah 61:8 Micah 6:8 John 17:3 Isaiah 41:16 Psalm 146:7-9 Jeremiah 4:2 Psalm 99:4 Psalm 91:14 Luke 10:22 Philippians 3:3 Matthew 11:27 1 Samuel 15:22 Exodus 34:5-7 Isaiah 45:25 2 Corinthians 4:6 Jeremiah 31:33-34 Romans 3:25-26 Romans 5:11 -
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Behold, the days come, saith , that I will punish all them that are circumcised in their uncircumcision:
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- 26 , and , and , and the children of Ammon, and , and all that have the corners of their hair polled, that dwell in the wilderness; For all the nations are uncircumcised, But all the house of are uncircumcised in the .