Jeremiah 9:3
And they have bent their tongue, as a bow, for lies, and not for truth: they have strengthened themselves upon the earth, for they have proceeded from evil to evil, and me they have not known, saith the Lord.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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Judges 2:10And all that generation was gathered to their fathers: and there arose others that knew not the Lord, and the works which he had done for Israel.
1 Samuel 2:12Now the sons of Heli were children of Belial, not knowing the Lord,
Psalms 64:3Thou hast protected me from the assembly of the malignant; from the multitude of the workers of iniquity.
Proverbs 12:5The thoughts of the just are judgments: and the counsels of the wicked are deceitful.
Isaiah 59:3For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity: your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue uttereth iniquity.
Jeremiah 4:22For my foolish people have not known me: they are foolish and senseless children: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
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 →