Chapter 9

¹Who will give water to my head, and to my eyes a well of tears, so I can weep day and night for the slain men of the daughter of my people? ²Who will give me in the wilderness a lodging-place of travellers, so I can forsake my people and go away from them? For they are all adulterers, and a band of lawbreakers. ³And they bend out their tongue like a bow for lying and not truth. They are strengthened in earth, for they went out from bad to worse^[1], and they didn't know me, says the Lord.

²³Thus says Yahweh:

"Let not the wise man

glory in his wisdom;

let not the mighty man

glory in his might;

let not the rich man

glory in his riches.

²⁴Now if he does, in this let him who glories glory

that he understands and knows me.

For I am Yahweh providing kindness,

judgement and righteousness in the land,

for in these I delight,"

declares Yahweh.

Chapter 21

⁴Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel:

"Behold!

I am turning back the instruments of war

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