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9.9 :And they hear not the voice of the cattle;
 * Both the fowl of the heavens and the beast
 * Are fled, and gone.
 * And I will make Jerusalem heaps,
 * A lair of jackals; And I will make the cities of Judah a desolation,
 * Without an inhabitant.


 * Who is the wise man, that he may understand this?
 * And who is he to whom the mouth of the hath spoken, that he may declare it?
 * Wherefore is the land perished
 * And laid waste like a wilderness, so that none passeth through?
 * And the saith:
 * Because they have forsaken My law which I set before them,
 * And have not hearkened to My voice, neither walked therein;
 * But have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart,
 * And after the Baalim, which their fathers taught them.
 * Therefore thus saith the of hosts, the God of Israel:
 * Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood,
 * And give them water of gall to drink.
 * I will scatter them also among the nations,
 * Whom neither they nor their fathers have known;
 * And I will send the sword after them,
 * Till I have consumed them.


 * Thus saith the of hosts:
 * Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come;
 * And send for the wise women, that they may come;
 * 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.
 * For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion:
 * 'How are we undone!
 * We are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land,
 * Because our dwellings have cast us out.'
 * Yea, hear the word of the, O ye women,
 * And let your ear receive the word of His mouth,
 * And teach your daughters wailing,
 * And every one her neighbour lamentation:
 * 'For death is come up into our windows,
 * It is entered into our palaces,
 * To cut off the children from the street,
 * And the young men from the broad places.—
 * Speak: Thus saith the —
 * And the carcasses of men fall
 * As dung upon the open field,
 * And as the handful after the harvestman,
 * Which none gathereth.'


 * Thus saith the :
 * 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;
 * But let him that glorieth glory in this,
 * That he understandeth, and knoweth Me,
 * That I am the who exercise mercy,