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If only I had a travelers’ lodging place
        in the wilderness,
    then I might leave my people
        and get away from them!
    For they are all adulterers,
        a bunch of traitors.
They bend their tongue like a bow.
    Lies, not faithfulness,
        prevail in the land.
    “For they go from evil to evil
    and do not know Me,” says Adonai.
Beware, everyone, of your neighbor!
    Don’t even trust a brother.
    For every brother grabs like Jacob
    and every neighbor spreads slander.

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[a]Oh, that my head were a spring of water
    and my eyes a fountain of tears!(A)
I would weep(B) day and night
    for the slain of my people.(C)
Oh, that I had in the desert(D)
    a lodging place for travelers,
so that I might leave my people
    and go away from them;
for they are all adulterers,(E)
    a crowd of unfaithful(F) people.

“They make ready their tongue
    like a bow, to shoot lies;(G)
it is not by truth
    that they triumph[b] in the land.
They go from one sin to another;
    they do not acknowledge(H) me,”
declares the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 9:1 In Hebrew texts 9:1 is numbered 8:23, and 9:2-26 is numbered 9:1-25.
  2. Jeremiah 9:3 Or lies; / they are not valiant for truth