Jeremiah 9:1-3

New Century Version

9 I wish my head were like a spring of water
    and my eyes like a fountain of tears!
Then I could cry day and night
    for my people who have been killed.
² I wish I had a place in the desert—
    a house where travelers spend the night—
so I could leave my people.
    I could go away from them,
because they are all unfaithful to God;
    they are all turning against him.

³ “They use their tongues like a bow,
    shooting lies from their mouths like arrows.
Lies, not truth,
    have grown strong in the land.
They go from one evil thing to another.
    They do not know who I am,” says the Lord.