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!
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
3 And they bend their tongues
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.
5 And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies,
6 Thine habitation
7 Therefore thus saith the
8 Their tongue
9 Shall I not visit them for these
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
11 And I will make Jerusalem heaps,
12 Who
13 And the
14 But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:
15 Therefore thus saith the
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.
17 Thus saith the
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.
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
20 Yet hear the word of the
21 For death is come up into our windows,
22 Speak, Thus saith the
23 Thus saith the
24 But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I
25 Behold, the days come, saith the
26 Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all