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    "chapter": 9
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    "n": 9,
    "bookSlug": "jeremiah",
    "bookCode": "JER",
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    "title": "",
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    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "JER-9:1",
        "verseRef": "Jer.9.1",
        "text": "Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!"
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "JER-9:2",
        "verseRef": "Jer.9.2",
        "text": "Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "JER-9:3",
        "verseRef": "Jer.9.3",
        "text": "And they bend their tongue, [as it were] their bow, for falsehood; and they are grown strong in the land, but not for truth: for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith Jehovah."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "JER-9:4",
        "verseRef": "Jer.9.4",
        "text": "Take ye heed every one of his neighbor, and trust ye not in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go about with slanders."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "JER-9:5",
        "verseRef": "Jer.9.5",
        "text": "And they will deceive every one his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they weary themselves to commit iniquity."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "JER-9:6",
        "verseRef": "Jer.9.6",
        "text": "Thy habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith Jehovah."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "JER-9:7",
        "verseRef": "Jer.9.7",
        "text": "Therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how [else] should I do, because of the daughter of my people?"
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "JER-9:8",
        "verseRef": "Jer.9.8",
        "text": "Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaketh deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart he layeth wait for him."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "JER-9:9",
        "verseRef": "Jer.9.9",
        "text": "Shall I not visit them for these things? saith Jehovah; shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?"
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "JER-9:10",
        "verseRef": "Jer.9.10",
        "text": "For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the pastures of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none passeth through; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the birds of the heavens and the beasts are fled, they are gone."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "JER-9:11",
        "verseRef": "Jer.9.11",
        "text": "And I will make Jerusalem heaps, a dwelling-place of jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "JER-9:12",
        "verseRef": "Jer.9.12",
        "text": "Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and [who is] he to whom the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken, that he may declare it? wherefore is the land perished and burned up like a wilderness, so that none passeth through?"
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "JER-9:13",
        "verseRef": "Jer.9.13",
        "text": "And Jehovah saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein,"
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "JER-9:14",
        "verseRef": "Jer.9.14",
        "text": "but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart, and after the Baalim, which their fathers taught them;"
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "JER-9:15",
        "verseRef": "Jer.9.15",
        "text": "therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "JER-9:16",
        "verseRef": "Jer.9.16",
        "text": "I will scatter them also among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them."
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "JER-9:17",
        "verseRef": "Jer.9.17",
        "text": "Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for the skilful women, that they may come:"
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "JER-9:18",
        "verseRef": "Jer.9.18",
        "text": "and let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters."
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "JER-9:19",
        "verseRef": "Jer.9.19",
        "text": "For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we ruined! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because they have cast down our dwellings."
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "JER-9:20",
        "verseRef": "Jer.9.20",
        "text": "Yet hear the word of Jehovah, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth; and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbor lamentation."
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "JER-9:21",
        "verseRef": "Jer.9.21",
        "text": "For death is come up into our windows, it is entered into our palaces; to cut off the children from without, [and] the young men from the streets."
      },{
        "n": 22,
        "refId": "JER-9:22",
        "verseRef": "Jer.9.22",
        "text": "Speak, Thus saith Jehovah, The dead bodies of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman; and none shall gather [them]."
      },{
        "n": 23,
        "refId": "JER-9:23",
        "verseRef": "Jer.9.23",
        "text": "Thus saith Jehovah, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches;"
      },{
        "n": 24,
        "refId": "JER-9:24",
        "verseRef": "Jer.9.24",
        "text": "but let him that glorieth glory in this, that he hath understanding, and knoweth me, that I am Jehovah who exerciseth lovingkindness, justice, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith Jehovah."
      },{
        "n": 25,
        "refId": "JER-9:25",
        "verseRef": "Jer.9.25",
        "text": "Behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that I will punish all them that are circumcised in [their] uncircumcision:"
      },{
        "n": 26,
        "refId": "JER-9:26",
        "verseRef": "Jer.9.26",
        "text": "Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that have the corners [of their hair] cut off, that dwell in the wilderness; for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart."
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