Spiritual Gems
JEREMIAH 9-10
Bible Reading assignment: Jer 9:13-24
jr 133-134 ¶11-12
Jeremiah 9:
1 For the slain ones of my people.
2 A band of treacherous people.
3 And they pay no attention to me,” declares Jehovah.
4 And every neighbor is a slanderer.
5 They wear themselves out doing what is wrong.
6 In their deception they refused to know me,” declares Jehovah.
7 For what else can I do with the daughter of my people?
8 But inside he lays an ambush.”
9 “Should I not avenge myself on such a nation?
10 The birds of heaven and the beasts have fled; they are gone.
11 And I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.
12 So that no one is passing through?”
13 Jehovah replied: “Because of their rejecting my law that I set before them, and because they have not followed it and obeyed my voice.
14 Instead, they stubbornly followed their own hearts, and they followed the Baʹal images, as their fathers had taught them to do.
15 Therefore this is what Jehovah of armies, the God of Israel, says, ‘Here I am making this people eat wormwood, and I will make them drink poisoned water.
16 I will scatter them among the nations that they and their fathers have not known, and I will send a sword after them until I will have exterminated them.’
17 And send for the skilled women to come,
18 And our eyelids trickle with water.
19 For we have left the land, and they have thrown down our homes.”
20 And teach one another this dirge.
21 And the young men from the public squares.’
22 With no one to gather them up.”’”
23 And let not the rich man boast about his riches.”
24 For in these things I take delight,” declares Jehovah.
25 “Look! Days are coming,” declares Jehovah, “and I will hold an accounting with everyone circumcised and yet uncircumcised,
26 with Egypt and Judah and Eʹdom and the Amʹmon·ites and Moʹab and with all of those with hair clipped at the temples who are dwelling in the wilderness; for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart.”
Jeremiah 10:
1 Hear the word that Jehovah has spoken against you, O house of Israel.
2 Because the nations are terrified by them.
3 Worked by the hands of the craftsman with his tool.
4 And fasten it with hammer and nails so that it will not fall over.
5 Nor can they do any good.”
6 You are great, and your name is great and mighty.
7 There is no one at all like you.
8 Instruction from a tree is an utter delusion.
9 They are all made by skilled workers.
10 And no nations will endure his denunciation.
11 Will perish from the earth and from under these heavens.”
12 And who stretched out the heavens by his understanding.
13 And he brings the wind out of his storehouses.
14 And there is no spirit in them.
15 When their day of reckoning comes, they will perish.
16 Jehovah of armies is his name.
17 O woman dwelling under siege.
18 And I will cause them to experience distress.”
19 And I said: “Surely this is my sickness, and I must bear it.
20 There is no one left to stretch out my tent or raise up my tent cloths.
21 And all their flocks have been scattered.”
22 To make the cities of Judah desolate, a lair of jackals.
23 It does not belong to man who is walking even to direct his step.
24 But not in your anger, that you may not reduce me to nothing.
25 And they have desolated his homeland.