Jeremiah 9:8 DBY

⁶  Thy habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith Jehovah.

⁷  Therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how else could I do for the daughter of my people?

⁸  Their tongue is a murderous arrow; it speaketh deceit. [A man] speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in his heart he layeth his ambush.

⁹  Shall I not visit them for these [things]? saith Jehovah; shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

¹⁰  For the mountains will I take up weeping and wailing, and for the pastures of the wilderness, a lamentation; for they are burnt up, so that none passeth through them; and the voice of the cattle is not heard. Both the fowl of the heavens and the beasts are fled; they are gone.