KJV Easy Read Bible 1Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people! 2Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men. travelers 3And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not Me, says the Lord. 4Take youp heed every one of his neighbor, and trust youp not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will walk with slanders. deceive 5And they will deceive every one his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity. 6Your habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know Me, says the Lord. dwelling, home 7Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of My people? Jehovahs.f. Tsebaothp.f.; refine; test 8Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaks deceit: one speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in heart he lays his wait. sets his trap 9Shall I not visit them for these things? says the Lord: shall not My soul be avenged on such a nation as this? punish 10For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled, they are gone. desolate 11And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant. ruins; monstrous beasts; barren, empty 12Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of the Lord has spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perish and is burned up like a wilderness, that none passes through? 13And the Lord says, Because they have forsaken My law which I set before them, and have not obeyed My voice, neither walked therein; 14But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them: stubbornness 15Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink. REV 8:11 | bitter or poisonous water 16I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them. The People Mourn in Judgment17Thus says the Lord of hosts, Consider youp, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning women, that they may come: skilled 18And 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. 19For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out. plundered 20Yet hear the word of the Lord, O youp women, and let yourp ear receive the word of His mouth, and teach yourp daughters wailing, and every one her neighbor lamentation. 21For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets. 22Speak, Thus says the Lord, Even the carcasses of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman, and none shall gather them. harvester, reaper 23Thus says the Lord, 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: 24But let him that glories glory in this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the Lord which exercise loving kindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, says the Lord. 1 COR 1:31; 2 COR 10:17 25Behold, the days come, says the Lord, that I will punish all them which are circumcised with the uncircumcised; ROM 2:25 26Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that are in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart. distant lands The Trusted King James in an Easy Read Format® is a registered trademarks of Whitaker Corporation. KJVERTM, Word of GodTM, Red Letter OldTM, Old Testament Direct Words of God in RedTM, King James Version Sword BibleTM, and SwordKJVTM are trademarked slogans of Whitaker Corporation. |
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