Ιερεμίας 9

1If only my head could produce water, and my eyes be a fountain of tears! 2If only someone would give me a place for travelers in the wilderness to stay, where I could go to abandon my people. 3Yahweh declares, “They tread on their bows of lies with their tongues, 4Each of you, be on guard against your neighbor and do not trust in any brother. 5Each man mocks his neighbor and does not speak the truth. 6Your dwelling is in the midst of deception; in their deceit they refuse to acknowledge me—this is Yahweh's declaration.” 7Yahweh of hosts says this, “See, I am about to refine them and test them, 8Their tongues are sharpened arrows; they speak unfaithful things. 9Should I not punish them because of these things—this is Yahweh's declaration— 10I will sing a song of mourning and wailing for the mountains, and a funeral song will be sung for the meadows. 11So I will turn Jerusalem into piles of ruins, a hideout for jackals. 12What man is wise enough to understand this? To whom has the mouth of Yahweh spoken, and he will declare it? 13Yahweh says, “It is because they have abandoned my law that I set before them, because they do not listen to my voice or walk by it. 14It is because they have walked by their stubborn hearts and have followed the Baals as their fathers taught them to do. 15Therefore Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, says this, 'See, I am about to make this people eat wormwood and drink poisonous water. 16Then I will scatter them among the nations that they have not known, neither they nor their ancestors. I will send out a sword after them until I have completely destroyed them.'” 17Yahweh of hosts says this, “Think about this: Summon 18Let them hurry and sing a mournful song over us, 19For the sound of wailing is heard in Zion, 'How we are devastated. 20So you women, hear Yahweh's word; pay attention to the messages that come from his mouth. 21For death has come through our windows; it goes into our palaces. 22Declare this, 'This is Yahweh's declaration—the corpses of men will fall like dung in the fields, 23Yahweh says this, “Do not let the wise man take pride in his wisdom, 24For if a man takes pride in anything, let it be in this, that he has insight and knows me. 25“See, days are coming—this is Yahweh's declaration—when I will punish all the circumcised who are such only in their body.