Jeremiah 9
1 who? to give: if only! head my water and eye my fountain tears and to weep by day and night [obj] slain: killed daughter people my
If only my head could produce water, and my eyes be a fountain of tears! For I wish to weep day and night for those among the daughter of my people who have been killed.
2 who? to give: if only! me in/on/with wilderness lodging to journey and to leave: forsake [obj] people my and to go: went from with them for all their to commit adultery assembly to act treacherously
If only someone would give me a place for travelers in the wilderness to stay, where I could go to abandon my people. If only I could leave them, since all of them are adulterers, a band of traitors!
3 and to tread [obj] tongue their bow their deception and not to/for faithfulness to prevail in/on/with land: country/planet for from distress: evil to(wards) distress: evil to come out: come and [obj] me not to know utterance LORD
Yahweh declares, “They tread on their bows of lies with their tongues, but it is not because of any faithfulness of theirs that they grow strong on the earth. They go from one wicked act to another. They do not know me.”
4 man: anyone from neighbor his to keep: careful and upon all brother: male-sibling not to trust for all brother: male-sibling to assail to assail and all neighbor slander to go: went
Each of you, be on guard against your neighbor and do not trust in any brother. For every brother is certainly a deceiver, and every neighbor walks in slander.
5 and man: anyone in/on/with neighbor his to deceive and truth: true not to speak: speak to learn: teach tongue their to speak: speak deception to pervert be weary
Each man mocks his neighbor and does not speak the truth. Their tongues teach deceitful things. They are exhausted from committing iniquity.
6 to dwell you in/on/with midst deceit in/on/with deceit to refuse to know [obj] me utterance LORD
Your dwelling is in the midst of deception; in their deceit they refuse to acknowledge me—this is Yahweh's declaration.”
7 to/for so thus to say LORD Hosts look! I to refine them and to test them for how? to make: do from face: because daughter people my
Yahweh of hosts says this, “See, I am about to refine them and test them, for what else can I do, because of what my people have done?
8 arrow (to slaughter *Q(K)*) tongue their deceit to speak: speak in/on/with lip his peace with neighbor his to speak: speak and in/on/with entrails: among his to set: consider ambush his
Their tongues are sharpened arrows; they speak unfaithful things. With their mouths they proclaim peace with their neighbors, but with their hearts they lie in wait for them.
9 upon these not to reckon: punish in/on/with them utterance LORD if: surely no in/on/with nation which like/as this not to avenge soul: myself my
Should I not punish them because of these things—this is Yahweh's declaration— and should I not avenge myself on a nation that is like this?
10 upon [the] mountain: mount to lift: raise weeping and wailing and upon habitation wilderness dirge for to kindle from without man: anyone to pass and not to hear: hear voice: sound livestock from bird [the] heaven and till animal to wander to go: went
I will sing a song of mourning and wailing for the mountains, and a funeral song will be sung for the meadows. For they are burned so no one can pass through them. They will not hear the sound of any cattle. The birds of the skies and the animals have all fled away.
11 and to give: if only! [obj] Jerusalem to/for heap habitation jackal and [obj] city Judah to give: if only! devastation from without to dwell
So I will turn Jerusalem into piles of ruins, a hideout for jackals. I will make Judah's cities ruined places without inhabitants.”
12 who? [the] man [the] wise and to understand [obj] this and which to speak: speak lip LORD to(wards) him and to tell her upon what? to perish [the] land: country/planet to kindle like/as wilderness from without to pass
What man is wise enough to understand this? To whom has the mouth of Yahweh spoken, and he will declare it? Why has the land perished and been destroyed like the wilderness that no one can pass through?
13 and to say LORD upon to leave: forsake they [obj] instruction my which to give: if only! to/for face: before their and not to hear: obey in/on/with voice my and not to go: walk in/on/with her
Yahweh says, “It is because they have abandoned my law that I set before them, because they do not listen to my voice or walk by it.
14 and to go: follow after stubbornness heart their and after [the] Baal which to learn: teach them father their
It is because they have walked by their stubborn hearts and have followed the Baals as their fathers taught them to do.
15 to/for so thus to say LORD Hosts God Israel look! I to eat them [obj] [the] people [the] this wormwood and to water: drink them water poison
Therefore Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, says this, 'See, I am about to make this people eat wormwood and drink poisonous water.
16 and to scatter them in/on/with nation which not to know they(masc.) and father their and to send: depart after them [obj] [the] sword till to end: destroy I [obj] them
Then I will scatter them among the nations that they have not known, neither they nor their ancestors. I will send out a sword after them until I have completely destroyed them.'”
17 thus to say LORD Hosts to understand and to call: call to to/for to chant and to come (in): come and to(wards) [the] wise to send: depart and to come (in): come
Yahweh of hosts says this, “Think about this: Summon funeral singers; let them come. Send out for women skilled at lamenting; let them come.
18 and to hasten and to lift: raise upon us wailing and to go down eye our tears and eyelid our to flow water
Let them hurry and sing a mournful song over us, so our eyes may run with tears and our eyelids flow with water.
19 for voice: sound wailing to hear: hear from Zion how? to ruin be ashamed much for to leave: forsake land: country/planet for to throw tabernacle our
For the sound of wailing is heard in Zion, 'How we are devastated. We are greatly ashamed, for we have abandoned the land since they tore down our houses.'
20 for to hear: hear woman word LORD and to take: recieve ear your word lip his and to learn: teach daughter your wailing and woman: another neighbor her dirge
So you women, hear Yahweh's word; pay attention to the messages that come from his mouth. Then teach your daughters a mourning song, and each neighbor woman a funeral song.
21 for to ascend: rise death in/on/with window our to come (in): come in/on/with citadel: palace our to/for to cut: eliminate infant from outside youth from street/plaza
For death has come through our windows; it goes into our palaces. It destroys children from outside, and young men in the city squares.
22 to speak: speak thus utterance LORD and to fall: fall carcass [the] man like/as dung upon face: surface [the] land: country and like/as sheaf from after [the] to reap and nothing to gather
Declare this, 'This is Yahweh's declaration—the corpses of men will fall like dung in the fields, and like grain stalks after the reapers, and there will be no one to gather them.'”
23 thus to say LORD not to boast: boast wise in/on/with wisdom his and not to boast: boast [the] mighty man in/on/with might his not to boast: boast rich in/on/with riches his
Yahweh says this, “Do not let the wise man take pride in his wisdom, or the warrior in his might. Do not let the wealthy man take pride in his riches.
24 that if: except if: except in/on/with this to boast: boast [the] to boast: boast be prudent and to know [obj] me for I LORD to make: do kindness justice and righteousness in/on/with land: country/planet for in/on/with these to delight in utterance LORD
For if a man takes pride in anything, let it be in this, that he has insight and knows me. For I am Yahweh, who acts with covenant loyalty, justice and righteousness on earth. For it is in these that I take pleasure —this is Yahweh's declaration.”
25 behold day to come (in): come utterance LORD and to reckon: punish upon all to circumcise in/on/with foreskin
“See, days are coming—this is Yahweh's declaration—when I will punish all the circumcised who are such only in their body.
26 upon Egypt and upon Judah and upon Edom and upon son: descendant/people Ammon and upon Moab and upon all to cut side [the] to dwell in/on/with wilderness for all [the] nation uncircumcised and all house: household Israel uncircumcised heart
I will punish Egypt and Judah, Edom, the people of Ammon, Moab, and all the people who cut the hair on their heads very short. For all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel has an uncircumcised heart.”
