Jeremiah 9:5

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

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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

4Every 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.

6Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will try them with fire, and prove them; for I will do thus because of the wickedness of the daughter of my people.

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Cross References

Judges 2:10And all that generation were laid to their fathers: and another generation rose up after them, who knew not the Lord, nor yet the work which he wrought in Israel.

Job 15:5Thou art guilty by the words of thy mouth, 1 Neither hast thou discerned the words of the mighty. 1

Psalms 50:19Sacrifice to God is a broken spirit: 1 A broken and humbled heart God will not despise. 1

Psalms 140:3Set a watch, O Lord, on my mouth, 1 And a strong door about my lips. 1

Proverbs 12:5The thoughts of the righteous are true judgments; 1 But ungodly men devise deceits. 1

Isaiah 41:6every one judging for his neighbor and that to assist his brother: and one will say,

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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