\v 1 "I wish that my head could produce as many tears as water from a spring, and that my eyes were like a fountain of tears,
\q since I cry night and day for all of my people who have been killed by their enemies.
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\v 2 I wish that I could leave my people and forget them, and go and live in a shack in the desert,
\q because they have not remained faithful to Yahweh; they are a mob of people who deceive others.
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\v 3 They use their tongues to tell lies like people shoot arrows with bows.
\q They are not powerful because they are faithful, but go about doing wicked things. "They do not know me," Yahweh has said.
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\v 4 Do not trust your neighbors and even your brothers! They all are as deceitful as Jacob was.
\q They slander each other and tell lies about each other.
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\v 5 They deceive their friends and never tell the truth.
\q They lie continually and, because of that, they have become skilled liars; they do one oppressive deed after another until they grow tired from sinning so much.
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\v 6 They habitually lie and deceive each other, and no one will admit that I am God.
\v 25-26 There will be a time when I will punish all those people who have changed their bodies by circumcising them but who have not changed their inner beings: the Egyptian, the Moab, of Edom, and of the Ammon people groups, all those who live close to desert areas far from Judah. I will even punish the people of Israel because they are only circumcised on the outside, and physically, and not on the inside, in their inner self."