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¹ For the slain of the daughter of my people! ² An assembly of treacherous men. ³ And they do not know Me,” says the Lord. ⁴ And every neighbor will walk with slanderers. ⁵ They weary themselves to commit iniquity. ⁶ Through deceit they refuse to know Me,” says the Lord. ⁷ For how shall I deal with the daughter of My people? ⁸ But in his heart he lies in wait. ⁹ “Shall I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?” ¹⁰ They are gone. ¹¹ I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.” ¹² Who is the wise man who may understand this? And who is he to whom the mouth of the Lord has spoken, that he may declare it? Why does the land perish and burn up like a wilderness, so that no one can pass through? ¹³ And the Lord said, “Because they have forsaken My law which I set before them, and have not obeyed My voice, nor walked according to it, ¹⁴ but they have walked according to the dictates of their own hearts and after the Baals, which their fathers taught them,” ¹⁵ therefore thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: “Behold, I will feed them, this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink. ¹⁶ I will scatter them also among the Gentiles, whom neither they nor their fathers have known. And I will send a sword after them until I have consumed them.” ¹⁷ That they may come. ¹⁸ And our eyelids gush with water. ¹⁹ Because we have been cast out of our dwellings.’ ” ²⁰ And everyone her neighbor a lamentation. ²¹ And the young men— no longer on the streets! ²² And no one shall gather them.’ ” ²³ Nor let the rich man glory in his riches; ²⁴ For in these I delight,” says the Lord. ²⁵ “Behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord, “that I will punish all who are circumcised with the uncircumcised— ²⁶ Egypt, Judah, Edom, the people of Ammon, Moab, and all who are in the farthest corners, who dwell in the wilderness. For all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart.”