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Jeremiah 9:12–24

12 Who is wisej enough to understand this? Who has been instructed by the Lord and can explain it? Why has the land been ruined and laid waste like a desert that no one can cross?

13 The Lord said, “It is because they have forsaken my law, which I set before them; they have not obeyed me or followed my law.k 14 Instead, they have followedl the stubbornness of their hearts;m they have followed the Baals, as their ancestors taught them.” 15 Therefore this is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: “See, I will make this people eat bitter foodn and drink poisoned water.o 16 I will scatter them among nationsp that neither they nor their ancestors have known,q and I will pursue them with the swordr until I have made an end of them.”s

17 This is what the Lord Almighty says:

“Consider now! Call for the wailing woment to come;

send for the most skillful of them.

18 Let them come quickly

and wail over us

till our eyes overflow with tears

and water streams from our eyelids.u

19 The sound of wailing is heard from Zion:

‘How ruinedv we are!

How great is our shame!

We must leave our land

because our houses are in ruins.’ ”

20 Now, you women, hear the word of the Lord;

open your ears to the words of his mouth.w

Teach your daughters how to wail;

teach one another a lament.x

21 Death has climbed in through our windowsy

and has entered our fortresses;

it has removed the children from the streets

and the young menz from the public squares.

22 Say, “This is what the Lord declares:

“ ‘Dead bodies will lie

like dunga on the open field,

like cut grain behind the reaper,

with no one to gather them.’ ”

23 This is what the Lord says:

“Let not the wise boast of their wisdomb

or the strong boast of their strengthc

or the rich boast of their riches,d

24 but let the one who boasts boaste about this:

that they have the understanding to knowf me,

that I am the Lord,g who exercises kindness,h

justice and righteousnessi on earth,

for in these I delight,”

declares the Lord.

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