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neither can
men
hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled;
they are gone.
11
And I will make Jerusalem heaps,
and
a den of dragons; and I will make the cities
of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.
12
Who
is
the wise man, that may understand this? and
who is he
to whom the mouth of the L
ORD
hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perisheth
and
is burned up like a wilderness,
that none passeth through?
13
And the L
ORD
saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set
before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein;
14
But have walked after the
imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:
15
Therefore thus
saith the L
ORD
of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them,
even
this people, with wormwood,
and give them water of gall to drink.
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.
17
Thus saith the L
ORD
of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may
come; and send for cunning
women,
that they may come:
18
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.
19
For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded,
because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast
us
out.
20
Yet hear the word
of the L
ORD
, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters
wailing, and every one her neighbour lamentation.
21
For death is come up into our windows,
and
is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without,
and
the young men from the streets.
22
Speak, Thus saith the L
ORD
, Even the carcases of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and
as the handful after the harvestman, and none shall gather
them.
23
Thus saith the L
ORD
, Let not the wise
man
glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty
man
glory in his might, let not the rich
man
glory in his riches:
24
But let him that glorieth glory in this,
that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I
am
the L
ORD
which exercise lovingkindness, judgment,
and righteousness, in the earth: for in these
things
I delight, saith the L
ORD
.
25
Behold, the days come, saith the L
ORD
, that I will punish all
them which are
circumcised with
the uncircumcised;
26
Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and
all
that are
in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all
these
nations
are
uncircumcised,
and all the house of Israel
are
uncircumcised in the heart.
CHAPTER 10
Hear ye the word which the L
ORD
speaketh unto you, O house of Israel:
2
Thus saith the L
ORD
,
Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are
dismayed at them.
3
For the customs of the people
are
vain: for
one
cutteth a tree out of the forest,
the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
4
They deck it with silver and with gold; they
fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.
5
They
are
upright as the palm tree, but
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