Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodgingplace of wayfaring men; that I mightleave my people, and go fromthem! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
And theybendtheirtonguesliketheir bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truthupon the earth; for theyproceedfromevil to evil, and theyknow not me, saith the LORD.
And theywilldeceiveevery one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: theyhavetaughttheirtongue to speaklies, and wearythemselves to commitiniquity.
For the mountainswill I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, becausethey are burned up, so thatnone can passthroughthem; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone.
Who is the wise man, that may understandthis? and who is he to whom the mouth of the LORDhathspoken, that he may declare it, for what the landperisheth and is burned up like a wilderness, thatnonepasseththrough?
For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatlyconfounded, because we haveforsaken the land, because our dwellingshavecast us out.
Yet hear the word of the LORD, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teachyourdaughterswailing, and every one her neighbourlamentation.
Speak, Thussaith the LORD, Even the carcases of men shallfall as dungupon the openfield, and as the handfulafter the harvestman, and noneshallgatherthem.
But let him thatgloriethglory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the LORDwhichexerciselovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in thesethings I delight, saith the LORD.
Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that are in the utmostcorners, thatdwell in the wilderness: for all thesenations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart.