Jeremiah 9
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Lutheran reading notes
In Jeremiah chapter 9, the prophetic message continues to reveal themes of warnings of judgment, covenant unfaithfulness, and future restoration. Lutheran interpretation often emphasizes the contrast between divine law, which exposes sin, and the promise of grace through God's future redemption. The chapter illustrates both warning and hope within God's covenant relationship.
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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! {Oh...: Heb. Who will give my head, etc}
Jeremiah 9:1 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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.
Jeremiah 9:2 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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.
Jeremiah 9:3 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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. {neighbour: or, friend}
Jeremiah 9:4 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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. {deceive: or, mock}
Jeremiah 9:5 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Thine habitation {is} in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah 9:6 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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?
Jeremiah 9:7 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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. {in heart: Heb. in the midst of him} {his wait: or, wait for him}
Jeremiah 9:8 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Shall I not visit them for these {things}? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
Jeremiah 9:9 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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. {habitations: or, pastures} {burned up: or, desolate} {both...: Heb. from the fowl even to, etc}
Jeremiah 9:10 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And I will make Jerusalem heaps, {and} a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant. {desolate: Heb. desolation}
Jeremiah 9:11 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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?
Jeremiah 9:12 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And the LORD saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein;
Jeremiah 9:13 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them: {imagination: or, stubbornness}
Jeremiah 9:14 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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.
Jeremiah 9:15 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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.
Jeremiah 9:16 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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:
Jeremiah 9:17 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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.
Jeremiah 9:18 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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.
Jeremiah 9:19 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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.
Jeremiah 9:20 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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.
Jeremiah 9:21 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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}.
Jeremiah 9:22 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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:
Jeremiah 9:23 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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.
Jeremiah 9:24 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will punish all {them which are} circumcised with the uncircumcised; {punish: Heb. visit upon}
Jeremiah 9:25 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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. {in the utmost...: Heb. cut off into corners, or, having the corners of their hair polled}