Jeremiah 9:5

Everyone will make sport of his neighbour with deceit, not saying what is true: their tongues have been trained to say false words; they are twisted, hating to come back.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.

In Context

4Let everyone keep watch on his neighbour, and put no faith in any brother: for every brother will certainly be tricking his brother, and every neighbour will go about saying evil.

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

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Cross References

Judges 2:10And in time death overtook all that generation; and another generation came after them, having no knowledge of the Lord or of the things which he had done for Israel.

Job 15:5For your mouth is guided by your sin, and you have taken the tongue of the false for yourself.

Psalms 50:19You have given your mouth to evil, your tongue to words of deceit.

Psalms 140:3\140:2\For their hearts are full of evil designs; and they are ever making ready causes of war.

Proverbs 12:5The purposes of upright men are right, but the designs of evil-doers are deceit.

Isaiah 41:6They gave help everyone to his neighbour; and everyone said to his brother, Take heart!

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 →

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