Jeremiah 9:6
Thy habitation is in the midst of deceit. Through deceit they refuse to know me, says LORD.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD.
In Context
Cross References
Psalms 120:2Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue.
Proverbs 1:29because they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of LORD.
Isaiah 4:4when LORD shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst of it, by the spirit of justice, and by the spirit of burning.
Jeremiah 8:5Why then has this people of Jerusalem slid back by a perpetual backsliding? They hold firm deceit. They refuse to return.
Jeremiah 13:10This evil people, who refuse to hear my words, who walk in the stubbornness of their heart, and have gone after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this sash, which is good for nothing.
Jeremiah 20:10For I have heard the defaming of many, terror on every side. Denounce, and we will denounce him, [say] all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall. Perhaps he will be persuaded, and we shall prevail against him, and we sha
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 9:2-12
The Prophet's Lamentation; Wickedness of Judah. ( b. c. 606.) 1 Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people! 2 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men. 3 And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to… Read the whole commentary →