Jeremiah 9:8 BBE

⁶  There is wrong on wrong, deceit on deceit; they have given up the knowledge of me, says the Lord.

⁷  So the Lord of armies has said, See, I will make them soft in the fire and put them to the test; this I will do because of their evil-doing.

⁸  His tongue is an arrow causing death; the words of his mouth are deceit: he says words of peace to his neighbour, but in his heart he is waiting secretly for him.

⁹  Am I not to send punishment for these things? says the Lord: will not my soul take payment from such a nation as this?

¹⁰  Give yourselves to weeping, crying out in sorrow for the mountains; and for the fields of the waste land send up a song of grief, because they are burned up, so that no one goes through; there is no sound of cattle; the bird of the heavens and the beast are in flight and are gone.