Jeremiah 9:5

And they act deceitfully every one with his neighbour, and speak not the truth: they teach their tongue to speak falsehood, they weary themselves with perverse dealing.

Darby Translation

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

4Take ye heed every one of his friend, and confide not in any brother; for every brother only supplanteth, and every friend goeth about with slander.

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

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Cross References

Judges 2:10And also all that generation were gathered to their fathers; and there arose another generation after them, which knew not Jehovah, nor yet the works which he had done for Israel.

Job 15:5For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou hast chosen the tongue of the crafty.

Psalms 50:19Thou lettest thy mouth loose to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit;

Psalms 140:3They sharpen their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.

Proverbs 12:5The thoughts of the righteous are right; the counsels of the wicked are deceit.

Isaiah 41:6They helped every one his neighbour, and [each] said to his brother, Take courage.

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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