Jeremiah 9:4

Everyone, watch out for your friends! Don't even trust your brother! Every brother is deceitful, and every friend slanders other people.

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In The King James Version

Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders.

In Context

3Their words are like arrows shot from a bow. Lies win out over the truth throughout the country. They go from one evil thing to the next, forgetting all about me, declares the Lord.

5Everyone betrays their friends; no one tells the truth. They've made themselves into expert liars; they tire themselves out doing wrong.

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Cross References

Genesis 32:28“Jacob will no longer be your name,” said the man. “Instead you will be called Israel, because you fought with God and with men and you won.”

Psalms 12:2Everyone lies to their neighbors. They flatter with nice talk, but they don't mean what they say.

Psalms 55:11The ones causing destruction are inside the city; frauds and cheats are always on the streets.

Proverbs 4:17For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.

Proverbs 6:19a false witness that speaks lies, those who caused arguments in families.

Proverbs 25:18Telling lies in court against a friend is like attacking them with a mace, or a sword, or an arrow.

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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