| 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! | Jer 4:19 Jer 13:17 Jer 14:17 Ps 119:136 Isa 16:9 Isa 22:4 Lam 2:11 Lam 2:18 Lam 2:19 Lam 3:48 Lam 3:49 Ezk 21:6 Ezk 21:7 |
| 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. | Ps 55:6-8 Ps 120:5-7 Mic 7:1-7 |
| 3 | They bend their tongue, [as it were] their bow, for falsehood; and they are grown strong in the land, but not for truth: for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don`t know me, says Yahweh. | Jer 9:5 Jer 9:8 Ps 52:2-4 Ps 64:3 Ps 64:4 Ps 120:2-4 Isa 59:3-5 Isa 59:13-15 Mic 7:3-5 Ro 3:13 |
| 4 | Take you heed everyone of his neighbor, and don`t you trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go about with slanders. | Jer 12:6 Ps 12:2 Ps 12:3 Ps 55:11 Ps 55:12 Pr 26:24 Pr 26:25 Mic 7:5 Mic 7:6 Mt 10:17 Mt 10:21 Mt 10:34 Mt 10:35 Lk 21:16 |
| 5 | They will deceive everyone his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they weary themselves to commit iniquity. | Jer 9:5 Jer 9:8 Isa 59:13-15 Mic 6:12 Eph 4:25 |
| 6 | Your habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, says Yahweh. | Jer 11:19 Jer 18:18 Jer 20:10 Ps 120:2-6 |
| 7 | Therefore thus says Yahweh of Hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how [else] should I do, because of the daughter of my people? | Jer 6:29 Jer 6:30 Isa 1:25 Isa 48:10 Ezk 22:18-22 Ezk 26:11 Ezk 26:12 Zc 13:9 Mal 3:3 1Pe 1:7 1Pe 4:12 |
| 8 | Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks deceit: one speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart he lays wait for him. | Jer 9:3 Jer 9:5 Ps 12:2 Ps 57:4 Ps 64:3 Ps 64:4 Ps 64:8 Ps 120:3 |
| 9 | Shall I not visit them for these things? says Yahweh; shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? | Jer 5:9 Jer 5:29 Isa 1:24 |
| 10 | For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the pastures of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none passes through; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the birds of the sky and the animals are fled, they are gone. | Jer 4:19-26 Jer 7:29 Jer 8:18 Jer 13:16 Jer 13:17 Lam 1:16 Lam 2:11 |
| 11 | I will make Jerusalem heaps, a dwelling-place of jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant. | Jer 26:18 Jer 51:37 Ne 4:2 Ps 79:1 Isa 25:2 Mic 1:6 Mic 3:12 |
| 12 | Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and [who is] he to whom the mouth of Yahweh has spoken, that he may declare it? why is the land perished and burned up like a wilderness, so that none passes through? | Dt 32:29 Ps 107:43 Hos 14:9 Mt 24:15 Rev 1:3 |
| 13 | Yahweh says, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein, | Jer 22:9 Dt 31:16 Dt 31:17 2Ch 7:19 Ezr 9:10 Ps 89:30 Ps 119:53 Pr 28:4 Zep 3:1-6 |
| 14 | but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart, and after the Baals, which their fathers taught them; | Jer 3:17 Jer 7:24 Gn 6:5 Ro 1:21-24 Eph 2:3 Eph 4:17-19 |
| 15 | therefore thus says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink. | Jer 8:14 Jer 23:15 Jer 25:15 Ps 60:3 Ps 69:21 Ps 75:8 Ps 80:5 Isa 2:17 Isa 2:22 Lam 3:15 Lam 3:19 Rev 8:11 |
| 16 | I will scatter them also among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known; and I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them. | Jer 13:24 Lv 26:33 Dt 4:27 Dt 28:25 Dt 28:36 Dt 28:64 Dt 32:26 Ne 1:8 Ps 106:27 Ezk 11:17 Ezk 12:15 Ezk 20:23 Zc 7:14 Jm 1:1 |
| 17 | Thus says Yahweh of Hosts, Consider you, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for the skillful women, that they may come: | 2Ch 35:25 Jb 3:8 Ec 12:5 Am 5:16 Am 5:17 Mt 9:23 Mk 5:38 |
| 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. | Jer 9:10 Jer 9:20 |
| 19 | For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we ruined! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because they have cast down our dwellings. | Jer 4:31 Ezk 7:16-18 Mic 1:8 Mic 1:9 |
| 20 | Yet hear the word of Yahweh, you women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth; and teach your daughters wailing, and everyone her neighbor lamentation. | Isa 3:16-4 Isa 32:9-13 Lk 23:27-30 |
| 21 | For death is come up into our windows, it is entered into our palaces; to cut off the children from outside, [and] the young men from the streets. | Jer 6:11 Jer 15:7 2Ch 36:17 Ezk 9:5 Ezk 9:6 Ezk 21:14 Ezk 21:15 Am 6:10 Am 6:11 |
| 22 | Speak, Thus says Yahweh, The dead bodies of men shall fall as dung on the open field, and as the handful after the harvester; and none shall gather [them]. | Jer 7:33 Jer 8:2 Jer 16:4 Jer 25:33 2Ki 9:37 Ps 83:10 Isa 5:25 Zep 1:17 |
| 23 | Thus says Yahweh, Don`t let the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, don`t let the rich man glory in his riches; | Jb 5:12-14 Ps 49:10-13 Ps 49:16-18 Ec 2:13-16 Ec 2:19-16 Ec 9:11 Isa 5:21 Isa 10:12 Isa 10:13 Ezk 28:2-9 Ro 1:22 1Co 1:19-21 1Co 1:27-29 1Co 3:18-20 Jm 3:14-16 |
| 24 | but let him who glories glory in this, that he has understanding, and knows me, that I am Yahweh who exercises lovingkindness, justice, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, says Yahweh. | Jer 4:2 Ps 44:8 Isa 41:16 Isa 45:25 Ro 5:11 1Co 1:31 2Co 10:17 Ga 6:14 Php 3:3 |
| 25 | Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will punish all those who are circumcised in [their] uncircumcision: | Ezk 28:10 Ezk 32:19-32 Am 3:2 Ro 2:8 Ro 2:9 Ro 2:25 Ro 2:26 Ga 5:2-6 |
| 26 | Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that have the corners [of their hair] cut off, who dwell in the wilderness; for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart. | Jer 25:9-26 Jer 27:3-7 Jer 46:1-52 Isa 13:1-24 Ezk 24:1-32 Am 1:1-2 Zep 1:1-2 |
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