Jeremiah · Brenton's English Septuagint
Jeremiah 9 Brenton's English Septuagint
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- Square brackets mark words Brenton supplied for English sense.
- Old Testament only (no New Testament). First printed 1844; the 1851 edition added the deuterocanonical books.
1 Who would give me a most distant lodge in the wilderness, that I might leave my people, and depart from them? for they all commit adultery, an assembly of treacherous men.
1 Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a spring of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
2 And they have bent their tongue like a bow: falsehood and not faithfulness has prevailed upon the earth; for they have gone on from evil to evil, and have not known me, saith the Lord.
2 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.
3 Beware ye each of his neighbour, and trust ye not in your brethren: for every one will surely supplant, and every friend will walk craftily.
3 “They bend their tongue, as their bow, for falsehood. They have grown strong in the land, but not for truth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don’t know me,” says Yahweh.
4 Every one will mock his friend; they will not speak truth: their tongue has learned to speak falsehoods; they have committed iniquity, they ceased not, so as to return.
4 “Everyone beware of his neighbor, and don’t trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go around like a slanderer.
5 [There is] usury upon usury, and deceit upon deceit: they would not know me, saith the Lord.
5 Friends deceive each other, and will not speak the truth. They have taught their tongue to speak lies. They weary themselves committing iniquity.
6 Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will try them with fire, and prove them; for I will do [thus] because of the wickedness of the daughter of my people.
6 Your habitation is in the middle of deceit. Through deceit, they refuse to know me,” says Yahweh.
7 Their tongue is a wounding arrow; the words of their mouth are deceitful: [one] speaks peaceably to his neighbour, but in himself retains enmity.
7 Therefore Yahweh of Armies says, “Behold, I will melt them and test them; for how should I deal with the daughter of my people?
8 Shall I not visit for these things? saith the Lord: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a people as this?
8 Their tongue is a deadly arrow. It speaks deceit. One speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart, he waits to ambush him.
9 Take up a lamentation for the mountains, and a mournful dirge for the paths of the wilderness, for they are desolate for want of men; they heard not the sound of life from the birds of the sky, nor the cattle: they were amazed, they are gone.
9 Shouldn’t I punish them for these things?” says Yahweh. “Shouldn’t my soul be avenged on a nation such as this?
10 And I will remove the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and make it a dwelling-place of dragons; and I will utterly waste the cities of Juda, so that they shall not be inhabited.
10 I will weep and wail for the mountains, and lament for the pastures of the wilderness, because they are burned up, so that no one passes through; Men can’t hear the voice of the livestock. Both the birds of the sky and the animals have fled. They are gone.
11 Who is the wise man, that he may understand this? and he that has the word of the mouth of the Lord [addressed] to him, let him tell you wherefore the land has been destroyed, has been ravaged by fire like a desert, so that no one passes through it.
11 “I will make Jerusalem heaps, a dwelling place of jackals. I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”
12 And the Lord said to me, Because they have forsaken my law, which I set before them, and have not hearkened to my voice;
12 Who is wise enough to understand this? Who is he to whom the mouth of Yahweh has spoken, that he may declare it? Why has the land perished and burned up like a wilderness, so that no one passes through?
13 but went after the lusts of their evil heart, and after the idols which their fathers taught them [to worship]:
13 Yahweh says, “Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice or walked in my ways,
14 therefore thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Behold, I will feed them with trouble and will cause them to drink water of gall:
14 but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart and after the Baals, which their fathers taught them.”
15 and I will scatter them among the nations, to them whom neither they nor their fathers knew; and I will send a sword upon them, until I have consumed them with it.
15 Therefore Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says, “Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink.
16 Thus saith the Lord, Call ye the mourning women, and let them come; and send to the wise women, and let them utter their voice;
16 I will scatter them also among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known. I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them.”
17 and let them take up a lamentation for you, and let your eyes pour down tears, and your eyelids drop water.
17 Yahweh of Armies says, “Consider, and call for the mourning women, that they may come. Send for the skillful women, that they may come.
18 For a voice of lamentation has been heard in Sion, How are we become wretched! we are greatly ashamed, for we have forsaken the land, and have abandoned our tabernacles!
18 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.
19 Hear now, ye women, the word of God, and let your ears receive the words of his mouth, and teach your daughters lamentation, and [every] woman her neighbour a dirge.
19 For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, ‘How we are ruined! We are greatly confounded because we have forsaken the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.’”
20 For death has come up through your windows, it has entered into our land, to destroy the infants without, and the young men from the streets.
20 Yet hear Yahweh’s word, you women. Let your ear receive the word of his mouth. Teach your daughters wailing. Everyone teach her neighbor a lamentation.
21 And the carcases of the men shall be for an example on the face of the field of your land, like grass after the mower, and there shall be none to gather [them].
21 For death has come up into our windows. It has entered into our palaces to cut off the children from outside, and the young men from the streets.
22 Thus saith the Lord, Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, and let not the strong man boast in his strength, and let not the rich man boast in his wealth;
22 Speak, “Yahweh says, “‘The dead bodies of men will fall as dung on the open field, and as the handful after the harvester. No one will gather them.’”
23 but let him that boasts boast in this, the understanding and knowing that I am the Lord that exercise mercy, and judgment, and righteousness, upon the earth; for in these things is my pleasure, saith the Lord.
23 Yahweh says, “Don’t let the wise man glory in his wisdom. Don’t let the mighty man glory in his might. Don’t let the rich man glory in his riches.
24 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will visit upon all the circumcised their uncircumcision;
24 But let him who glories glory in this, that he has understanding, and knows me, that I am Yahweh who exercises loving kindness, justice, and righteousness on the earth, for I delight in these things,” says Yahweh.
25 on Egypt, and on Idumea, and on Edom, and on the children of Ammon, and on the children of Moab, and on every one that shaves his face round about, [even] them that dwell in the wilderness; for all the Gentiles are uncircumcised in flesh, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised [in] their hearts.
25 “Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will punish all those who are circumcised only in their flesh: 26 Egypt, Judah, Edom, the children of Ammon, Moab, and all who have the corners of their hair cut off, who dwell in the wilderness, for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart.”
Cross references (25)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Jeremiah 13:17; Isaiah 22:4; Lamentations 2:11; Jeremiah 8:21–22; Jeremiah 6:26
- 2 Jeremiah 5:7–8; Jeremiah 23:10; Hosea 4:2; Hosea 7:4; Jeremiah 12:1
- 3 Jeremiah 4:22; Jeremiah 9:8; Judges 2:10; Isaiah 59:13–15; Romans 3:13
- 4 Micah 7:5–6; Proverbs 26:24–25; Psalm 12:2–3; Jeremiah 6:28; Proverbs 10:18
- 5 Habakkuk 2:13; Isaiah 57:10; Micah 6:12; Job 15:5; Isaiah 59:13–15
- 6 Jeremiah 13:10; Hosea 4:6; Romans 1:28; Jeremiah 20:10; Proverbs 1:24
- 7 Isaiah 1:25; Malachi 3:3; Jeremiah 6:27; Isaiah 48:10; Zechariah 13:9
- 8 Psalm 28:3; Proverbs 26:24–26; Psalm 64:3–4; Psalm 120:3; Jeremiah 9:3
- 9 Jeremiah 5:29; Jeremiah 5:9; Isaiah 1:24
- 10 Jeremiah 12:4; Hosea 4:3; Ezekiel 29:11; Ezekiel 33:28; Jeremiah 7:29
- 11 Isaiah 25:2; Jeremiah 10:22; Isaiah 34:13; Isaiah 13:22; Jeremiah 51:37
- 12 Hosea 14:9; Psalm 107:43; Deuteronomy 32:29; Psalm 107:34; Revelation 1:3
- 13 Jeremiah 22:9; 2 Chronicles 7:19; Ezra 9:10; Proverbs 28:4; Psalm 119:53
- 14 Jeremiah 3:17; Jeremiah 7:24; Ephesians 2:3; 1 Peter 1:18; Romans 1:21–24
- 15 Jeremiah 8:14; Psalm 80:5; Lamentations 3:15; Jeremiah 23:15; Jeremiah 25:15
- 16 Ezekiel 5:12; Deuteronomy 28:64; Leviticus 26:33; Ezekiel 5:2; Jeremiah 44:27
- 17 Amos 5:16–17; Ecclesiastes 12:5; 2 Chronicles 35:25; Mark 5:38; Matthew 9:23
- 18 Jeremiah 9:1; Isaiah 22:4; Jeremiah 14:17; Jeremiah 9:20; Lamentations 2:11
- 19 Jeremiah 4:13; Ezekiel 7:16–18; Deuteronomy 28:29; Micah 1:8–9; Lamentations 5:2
- 20 Luke 23:27–30; Isaiah 32:9–13; Job 22:22; Isaiah 3:16; Jeremiah 9:17–18
- 21 Jeremiah 6:11; 2 Chronicles 36:17; Jeremiah 15:7; Ezekiel 9:5–6; Ezekiel 21:14–15
- 22 Jeremiah 8:2; Jeremiah 25:33; Zephaniah 1:17; Jeremiah 16:4; Psalm 83:10
- 23 1 Corinthians 1:27–29; Isaiah 5:21; Ecclesiastes 9:11; Romans 1:22; 1 Corinthians 3:18–20
- 24 2 Corinthians 10:17; Galatians 6:14; 1 Corinthians 1:31; Micah 6:8; Micah 7:18
- 25 Galatians 5:2–6; Romans 2:25–26; Romans 2:8–9; Ezekiel 32:19–32; Amos 3:2
Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences
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