Jeremiah 9
1 who? to give: if only! head my water and eye my fountain tears and to weep by day and night [obj] slain: killed daughter people my
How I wish my head was a spring of water, and my eyes a fountain of tears! Then I would weep day and night over all my people who have been killed.
2 who? to give: if only! me in/on/with wilderness lodging to journey and to leave: forsake [obj] people my and to go: went from with them for all their to commit adultery assembly to act treacherously
I wish I had a temporary shelter in the desert—I would give up on my people and leave them, because they're all adulterers, a bunch of traitors!
3 and to tread [obj] tongue their bow their deception and not to/for faithfulness to prevail in/on/with land: country/planet for from distress: evil to(wards) distress: evil to come out: come and [obj] me not to know utterance LORD
Their words are like arrows shot from a bow. Lies win out over the truth throughout the country. They go from one evil thing to the next, forgetting all about me, declares the Lord.
4 man: anyone from neighbor his to keep: careful and upon all brother: male-sibling not to trust for all brother: male-sibling to assail to assail and all neighbor slander to go: went
Everyone, watch out for your friends! Don't even trust your brother! Every brother is deceitful, and every friend slanders other people.
5 and man: anyone in/on/with neighbor his to deceive and truth: true not to speak: speak to learn: teach tongue their to speak: speak deception to pervert be weary
Everyone betrays their friends; no one tells the truth. They've made themselves into expert liars; they tire themselves out doing wrong.
6 to dwell you in/on/with midst deceit in/on/with deceit to refuse to know [obj] me utterance LORD
Everyone exploits each other, and in all their lies they don't want to know me, declares the Lord.
7 to/for so thus to say LORD Hosts look! I to refine them and to test them for how? to make: do from face: because daughter people my
So this is what the Lord Almighty says: Look, I'm going to test them and purify them like metal in a furnace. What else can I do because of what my people have done?
8 arrow (to slaughter *QK) tongue their deceit to speak: speak in/on/with lip his peace with neighbor his to speak: speak and in/on/with entrails: among his to set: consider ambush his
Their words are arrows that kill; they always tell lies. They're nice to their friends on the outside while plotting against them inside.
9 upon these not to reckon: punish in/on/with them utterance LORD if: surely no in/on/with nation which like/as this not to avenge soul: myself my
Shouldn't I punish them for all this? declares the Lord. Shouldn't I retaliate for what this nation has done?
10 upon [the] mountain: mount to lift: raise weeping and wailing and upon habitation wilderness dirge for to kindle from without man: anyone to pass and not to hear: hear voice: sound livestock from bird [the] heaven and till animal to wander to go: went
I will weep and wail for the mountains, I will sing a funeral song over the pastures in the countryside, because they have been so badly burned that no one can pass through, and there are no cattle to make any noise. The birds have flown and the wild animals have run away.
11 and to give: if only! [obj] Jerusalem to/for heap habitation jackal and [obj] city Judah to give: if only! devastation from without to dwell
I'm going to make Jerusalem into a heap of rubble, a place where jackals live. I will destroy the towns of Judah, leaving them empty.
12 who? [the] man [the] wise and to understand [obj] this and which to speak: speak lip LORD to(wards) him and to tell her upon what? to perish [the] land: country/planet to kindle like/as wilderness from without to pass
Who is wise enough to understand this? Has the Lord told anyone so they can explain what's happened? Why has the land been destroyed and burned so it's like a desert, so no one can pass through it?
13 and to say LORD upon to leave: forsake they [obj] instruction my which to give: if only! to/for face: before their and not to hear: obey in/on/with voice my and not to go: walk in/on/with her
The Lord replied, It's because they have given up keeping my laws that I placed before them. They haven't followed them; they haven't done what I told them.
14 and to go: follow after stubbornness heart their and after [the] Baal which to learn: teach them father their
On the contrary, they have followed their own stubborn way of thinking, and went to worship the Baals, just as their forefathers taught them.
15 to/for so thus to say LORD Hosts God Israel look! I to eat them [obj] [the] people [the] this wormwood and to water: drink them water poison
So this is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Watch out! I will give these people wormwood to eat and poisoned water to drink.
16 and to scatter them in/on/with nation which not to know they(masc.) and father their and to send: depart after them [obj] [the] sword till to end: destroy I [obj] them
I'm about to scatter them among nations unfamiliar to them and their forefathers, and I will send enemies with swords to chase after them until I have wiped them out.
17 thus to say LORD Hosts to understand and to call: call to to/for to chant and to come (in): come and to(wards) [the] wise to send: depart and to come (in): come
This is what the Lord Almighty says: Be aware of what's happening! Call for the professional women mourners, ask for the best of them.
18 and to hasten and to lift: raise upon us wailing and to go down eye our tears and eyelid our to flow water
Have them come as quickly as possible, and sing a funeral song about us, so we can cry our eyes out, so our tears will flow like streams.
19 for voice: sound wailing to hear: hear from Zion how? to ruin be ashamed much for to leave: forsake land: country/planet for to throw tabernacle our
The sound of weeping comes from Zion, “We're completely devastated! We're totally ashamed, because we've had to abandon our country, because our houses have been demolished.”
20 for to hear: hear woman word LORD and to take: recieve ear your word lip his and to learn: teach daughter your wailing and woman: another neighbor her dirge
Women, listen to the Lord's message, hear what he has to say. Teach your daughters to mourn and sing songs of sadness.
21 for to ascend: rise death in/on/with window our to come (in): come in/on/with citadel: palace our to/for to cut: eliminate infant from outside youth from street/plaza
Death has slipped in through our windows; it has come into our fortresses. It has killed the children playing in the streets and the young people gathering in the town squares.
22 to speak: speak thus utterance LORD and to fall: fall carcass [the] man like/as dung upon face: surface [the] land: country and like/as sheaf from after [the] to reap and nothing to gather
Tell everyone this is what the Lord says: Dead bodies will be left where they fall like manure in the fields, lying there like stalks of freshly-cut grain behind the reaper, with no one to collect them.
23 thus to say LORD not to boast: boast wise in/on/with wisdom his and not to boast: boast [the] mighty man in/on/with might his not to boast: boast rich in/on/with riches his
This is what the Lord says: The wise shouldn't boast about their wisdom. The strong shouldn't boast about their strength. The rich shouldn't boast about their riches.
24 that if: except if: except in/on/with this to boast: boast [the] to boast: boast be prudent and to know [obj] me for I LORD to make: do kindness justice and righteousness in/on/with land: country/planet for in/on/with these to delight in utterance LORD
Anyone who wants to boast should boast that they really know and understand me, recognizing that I am the Lord who acts with trustworthy love, who shows fairness, and who does what is right everywhere on earth, because these mean the most to me, declares the Lord.
25 behold day to come (in): come utterance LORD and to reckon: punish upon all to circumcise in/on/with foreskin
Watch out, for the time is coming, declares the Lord, when I will punish all who are only physically circumcised.
26 upon Egypt and upon Judah and upon Edom and upon son: descendant/people Ammon and upon Moab and upon all to cut side [the] to dwell in/on/with wilderness for all [the] nation uncircumcised and all house: household Israel uncircumcised heart
Egypt, Judah, Edom, Ammon, Moab, and all the desert people who trim their hair on the sides of their heads—all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the Israelites are spiritually uncircumcised.
