Jeremiah 9:1-3

New International Reader's Version

9 I wish my head were a spring of water!
    I wish my eyes were a fountain of tears!
I would weep day and night
    for my people who have been killed.
² I wish I had somewhere to go in the desert
    where a traveler could stay!
Then I could leave my people.
    I could get away from them.
All of them commit adultery by worshiping other gods.
    They aren’t faithful to the Lord.

³ “They get ready to use
    their tongues like bows,”
    announces the Lord.
“Their mouths shoot out lies like arrows.
    They tell lies to gain power in the land.
They go from one sin to another.
    They do not pay any attention to me.