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Jeremiah Chapter 9

Jeremiah
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Jeremiah

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Jeremiah warns the people of Judah that they have abandoned God and worshipped false gods, building high places and sacrificing to them. He declares that God will punish them with disaster and that only true devotion to Him will bring salvation. The chapter stresses the danger of idolatry and the need for sincere repentance.

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(1) Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
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Jeremiah 4:19Jeremiah 13:17Jeremiah 14:17Psalms 119:136Isaiah 16:9Isaiah 22:4Lamentations 2:11Lamentations 2:18Lamentations 2:19Lamentations 3:48Lamentations 3:49Ezekiel 21:6

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Luke 12:53Genesis 1:6Joshua 3:13Ezekiel 47:4Jeremiah 14:17Lamentations 2:18

(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 be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
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Psalms 55:6Psalms 55:7Psalms 55:8Psalms 120:5Psalms 120:6Psalms 120:7Micah 7:1Micah 7:2Micah 7:3Micah 7:4Micah 7:5Micah 7:6

(3) And 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, saith the LORD.
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Jeremiah 9:5Jeremiah 9:8Psalms 52:2Psalms 52:3Psalms 52:4Psalms 64:3Psalms 64:4Psalms 120:2Psalms 120:3Psalms 120:4Isaiah 59:3Isaiah 59:4

(4) Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders.
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Jeremiah 12:6Psalms 12:2Psalms 12:3Psalms 55:11Psalms 55:12Proverbs 26:24Proverbs 26:25Micah 7:5Micah 7:6Matthew 10:17Matthew 10:21Matthew 10:34

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Exodus 11:2Leviticus 6:2Deuteronomy 15:2Deuteronomy 19:5Psalms 15:3Zechariah 14:13

(5) And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.
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Jeremiah 9:8Isaiah 59:13Isaiah 59:14Isaiah 59:15Micah 6:12Ephesians 4:25Job 11:3Jeremiah 9:3Job 15:5Psalms 50:19Psalms 64:3Psalms 140:3

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Psalms 15:3Isaiah 59:3Zephaniah 3:13James 3:6Isaiah 59:4Ezekiel 33:13

(6) Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD.
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Jeremiah 11:19Jeremiah 18:18Jeremiah 20:10Psalms 120:2Psalms 120:3Psalms 120:4Psalms 120:5Psalms 120:6Jeremiah 13:10Job 21:14Job 21:15Proverbs 1:24

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Jeremiah 8:5

(7) Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people?
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Jeremiah 6:29Jeremiah 6:30Isaiah 1:25Isaiah 48:10Ezekiel 22:18Ezekiel 22:19Ezekiel 22:20Ezekiel 22:21Ezekiel 22:22Ezekiel 26:11Ezekiel 26:12Zechariah 13:9

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Luke 12:53Genesis 36:2Leviticus 18:17Zechariah 1:3

(8) Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait.
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Jeremiah 9:3Jeremiah 9:5Psalms 12:2Psalms 57:4Psalms 64:3Psalms 64:4Psalms 64:8Psalms 120:3II Samuel 3:27II Samuel 20:9II Samuel 20:10Psalms 28:3

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I Corinthians 14:2Matthew 12:32John 8:44I Corinthians 14:11Hebrews 12:25James 4:11

(9) Shall I not visit them for these things? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
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Jeremiah 5:9Jeremiah 5:29Isaiah 1:24

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Jeremiah 5:15Jeremiah 5:9Jeremiah 5:29

(10) For 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.
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Jeremiah 4:19Jeremiah 4:20Jeremiah 4:21Jeremiah 4:22Jeremiah 4:23Jeremiah 4:24Jeremiah 4:25Jeremiah 4:26Jeremiah 7:29Jeremiah 8:18Jeremiah 13:16Jeremiah 13:17

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Genesis 9:10Revelation 4:7Genesis 2:20Genesis 7:14Genesis 7:21Ezekiel 39:17

(11) And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.
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Jeremiah 26:18Jeremiah 51:37Nehemiah 4:2Psalms 79:1Isaiah 25:2Micah 1:6Micah 3:12Jeremiah 10:22Isaiah 13:22Isaiah 34:13Revelation 18:2Jeremiah 34:22

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Jeremiah 10:22Jeremiah 12:11Jeremiah 33:10Ezekiel 29:12Jeremiah 51:37

(12) Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of the LORD hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perisheth and is burned up like a wilderness, that none passeth through?
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Deuteronomy 32:29Psalms 107:43Hosea 14:9Matthew 24:15Revelation 1:3Jeremiah 5:19Jeremiah 5:20Jeremiah 16:10Jeremiah 16:11Jeremiah 16:12Jeremiah 16:13Jeremiah 22:8

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Daniel 12:10

(13) And the LORD saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein;
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Jeremiah 22:9Deuteronomy 31:16Deuteronomy 31:17II Chronicles 7:19Ezra 9:10Psalms 89:30Psalms 119:53Proverbs 28:4Zephaniah 3:1Zephaniah 3:2Zephaniah 3:3Zephaniah 3:4

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Jeremiah 16:11Revelation 10:6

(14) But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:
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Jeremiah 3:17Jeremiah 7:24Genesis 6:5Romans 1:21Romans 1:22Romans 1:23Romans 1:24Ephesians 2:3Ephesians 4:17Ephesians 4:18Ephesians 4:19Jeremiah 44:17

(15) Therefore thus saith 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.
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Jeremiah 8:14Jeremiah 23:15Jeremiah 25:15Psalms 60:3Psalms 69:21Psalms 75:8Psalms 80:5Isaiah 2:17Isaiah 2:22Lamentations 3:15Lamentations 3:19Revelation 8:11

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Jeremiah 23:15Zechariah 1:3

(16) I 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.
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Jeremiah 13:24Leviticus 26:33Deuteronomy 4:27Deuteronomy 28:25Deuteronomy 28:36Deuteronomy 28:64Deuteronomy 32:26Nehemiah 1:8Psalms 106:27Ezekiel 11:17Ezekiel 12:15Ezekiel 20:23

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Genesis 38:17Jeremiah 24:10Jeremiah 49:37

(17) Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning women, that they may come:
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II Chronicles 35:25Job 3:8Ecclesiastes 12:5Amos 5:16Amos 5:17Matthew 9:23Mark 5:38

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Exodus 1:19Judges 5:24Judges 16:27I Samuel 15:33I Kings 11:1Esther 2:3

(18) And 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.
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Jeremiah 9:10Jeremiah 9:20Jeremiah 9:1Jeremiah 6:26Jeremiah 13:17Jeremiah 14:17Isaiah 22:4Lamentations 1:2Lamentations 2:11Lamentations 2:18Luke 19:41

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Genesis 1:6Joshua 3:13Ezekiel 47:4I Corinthians 9:24

(19) For 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.
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Jeremiah 4:31Ezekiel 7:16Ezekiel 7:17Ezekiel 7:18Micah 1:8Micah 1:9Jeremiah 2:14Jeremiah 4:13Jeremiah 4:20Jeremiah 4:30Deuteronomy 28:29Lamentations 5:2

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Jeremiah 48:1

(20) Yet hear the word of the LORD, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbour lamentation.
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Isaiah 3:16Isaiah 32:9Isaiah 32:10Isaiah 32:11Isaiah 32:12Isaiah 32:13Luke 23:27Luke 23:28Luke 23:29Luke 23:30Job 22:22Jeremiah 9:17

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Job 2:10Genesis 27:46Genesis 31:43Isaiah 32:9Jeremiah 29:6Ezekiel 16:55

(21) For 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.
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Jeremiah 6:11Jeremiah 15:7II Chronicles 36:17Ezekiel 9:5Ezekiel 9:6Ezekiel 21:14Ezekiel 21:15Amos 6:10Amos 6:11

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Deuteronomy 22:6Lamentations 2:21Ezekiel 41:16

(22) Speak, Thus saith the LORD, Even the carcases of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman, and none shall gather them.
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Jeremiah 7:33Jeremiah 8:2Jeremiah 16:4Jeremiah 25:33II Kings 9:37Psalms 83:10Isaiah 5:25Zephaniah 1:17

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Ezekiel 29:5Ezekiel 33:27Ezekiel 39:5Genesis 23:17Exodus 9:19Exodus 9:25

(23) Thus saith 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:
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Job 5:12Job 5:13Job 5:14Psalms 49:10Psalms 49:11Psalms 49:12Psalms 49:13Psalms 49:16Psalms 49:17Psalms 49:18Ecclesiastes 2:13Ecclesiastes 2:14

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Ecclesiastes 7:19Job 36:5Ezekiel 28:5I Kings 4:30

(24) But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the LORD.
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Jeremiah 4:2Psalms 44:8Isaiah 41:16Isaiah 45:25Romans 5:11I Corinthians 1:31II Corinthians 10:17Galatians 6:14Philippians 3:3Jeremiah 31:33Jeremiah 31:34Psalms 91:14

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Psalms 99:4Isaiah 58:2Jeremiah 33:15Hosea 2:19Romans 9:30Romans 10:3

(25) Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will punish all them which are circumcised with the uncircumcised;
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Ezekiel 28:10Ezekiel 32:19Ezekiel 32:20Ezekiel 32:21Ezekiel 32:22Ezekiel 32:23Ezekiel 32:24Ezekiel 32:25Ezekiel 32:26Ezekiel 32:27Ezekiel 32:28Ezekiel 32:29

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Joshua 5:7I Corinthians 7:18

(26) Egypt, 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.
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Jeremiah 25:9Jeremiah 25:10Jeremiah 25:11Jeremiah 25:12Jeremiah 25:13Jeremiah 25:14Jeremiah 25:15Jeremiah 25:16Jeremiah 25:17Jeremiah 25:18Jeremiah 25:19Jeremiah 25:20

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Judges 11:18Leviticus 19:23Ezekiel 44:7Ezekiel 44:9Numbers 21:13Ezekiel 32:29

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