Jeremiah 9:1-9

CLV(i) 1 Who does make my head waters, And mine eye a fountain of tears? And I weep by day and by night, For the wounded of the daughter of my people." 2 Who does give me in a wilderness A lodging-place of travellers? And I leave my people, and go from them, For all of them [are] adulterers, An assembly of treacherous ones." 3 And they bend their tongue, their bow [is] a lie, And not for stedfastness have they been mighty in the land, For from evil unto evil they have gone forth, And Me they have not known, An affirmation of Yahweh!" 4 Each of his friend--beware you, And on any brother, do not trust, For every brother does utterly supplant, For every friend slanderously does walk, 5 And each at his friend they mock, And truth they do not speak, They taught their tongue to speak falsehood, To commit iniquity they have labored." 6 your dwelling [is] in the midst of deceit, Through deceit they refused to know Me, An affirmation of Yahweh." 7 Therefore, thus said Yahweh of Hosts:Lo, I am refining them, and have tried them, For how do I do because of the daughter of My people? 8 A slaughtering arrow [is] their tongue, Deceit it has spoken in its mouth, Peace with its neighbor it speaks, And in its heart it lays its ambush, 9 For these things do not I see after them? An affirmation of Yahweh, Against a nation such as this does not My soul avenge itself?