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Jeremiah 9:21 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" 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. "
Jeremiah 9:21
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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 Yet hear the LORD’s word, you women. Let your ear receive the word of his mouth. Teach your daughters wailing. Everyone teach her neighbor a lamentation.
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 Speak, “The LORD 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 The LORD 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.
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Jeremiah 9:1
"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!"
Jeremiah 9:2
"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."
Jeremiah 9:3
"“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 the LORD."
Jeremiah 9:4
"“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."
Jeremiah 9:5
"Friends deceive each other, and will not speak the truth. They have taught their tongue to speak lies. They weary themselves committing iniquity."
Jeremiah 9:6
"Your habitation is in the middle of deceit. Through deceit, they refuse to know me,” says the LORD."
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