Translation:Jeremiah

Chapter 9
Who will give water to my head, and to my eyes a well of tears, so I can weep day and night for the slain men of the daughter of my people? Who will give me in the wilderness a lodging-place of travellers, so I can forsake my people and go away from them? For they are all adulterers, and a band of lawbreakers. And they bend out their tongue like a bow for lying and not truth. They are strengthened in earth, for they went out from bad to worse, and they didn't know me, says the Lord.

Thus says Yahweh:
 * "Let not the wise man
 * glory in his wisdom;
 * let not the mighty man
 * glory in his might;
 * let not the rich man
 * glory in his riches.
 * Now if he does, in this let him who glories glory
 * that he understands and knows me.
 * For I am Yahweh providing kindness,
 * judgement and righteousness in the land,
 * for in these I delight,"
 * declares Yahweh.

Chapter 21
Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel:
 * "Behold!
 * I am turning back the instruments of war