Jeremiah 9:8-10

Holman Christian Standard Bible

⁸Their tongues are deadly arrows—
they speak deception.^(A)
With his mouth
a man speaks peaceably with his friend,
but inwardly he sets up an ambush.
⁹Should I not punish them for these things?
This is the Lord’s declaration.
Should I not avenge Myself^(B)
on such a nation as this?

¹⁰I will raise weeping and a lament
over the mountains,
a dirge over the wilderness grazing land,
for they have been so scorched
that no one passes through.
The sound of cattle is no longer heard.
From the birds of the sky to the animals,^(C)
everything has fled—they have gone away.