Jeremiah 9:4

Every one will mock his friend; they will not speak truth: their tongue has learned to speak falsehoods; they have committed iniquity, they ceased not, so as to return.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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

3Beware ye each of his neighbor, and trust ye not in your brethren: for everyone will surely supplant, and every friend will walk craftily.

5There is usury upon usury, and deceit upon deceit: they would not know me, saith the Lord.

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Cross References

Genesis 32:28And he said to him, What is thy name? and he answered, Jacob.

Psalms 12:2How long shall I take counsel in my soul, 1 Having sorrows in my heart daily? 1 How long shall my enemy be exalted over me? 1

Psalms 55:11In God will I praise his word; 1 In the Lord will I praise his saying. 1

Proverbs 4:17For these live upon the bread of ungodliness, 1 And are drunken with wine of transgression. 1

Proverbs 6:19An unjust witness kindles falsehoods, 1 And brings on quarrels between brethren. 1

Proverbs 25:18As a club, and a dagger, and a pointed arrow, 1 So also is a man who bears false witness against his friend. 1

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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