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[a]“I wish that my head were filled with water
    and my eyes were a fountain of tears
        so that I could cry day and night
            for my dear people who have been killed.
I wish I had a place to stay in the desert.
    I would abandon my people and go away from them.
        They are all adulterers,
            a mob of traitors.
They use their tongues like bows that shoot arrows.
    Lies and dishonesty rule the land.[b]
    They go from one evil thing to another,
    and they don’t know me,” declares Yahweh.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 9:1 Jeremiah 9:1–26 in English Bibles is Jeremiah 8:23–9:25 in the Hebrew Bible.
  2. Jeremiah 9:3 Greek; Masoretic Text “They bend their tongue. Their bow is falsehood. And not for truth are they strong in the land.”

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