Jeremiah 9:6
Therefore 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.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD.
In Context
5There is usury upon usury, and deceit upon deceit: they would not know me, saith the Lord.
Cross References
Psalms 120:2My help shall come from the Lord, 1 Who made the heaven and the earth. 1
Proverbs 1:29For they hated wisdom, 1 And did not choose the word of the Lord: 1
Isaiah 4:4For the Lord shall wash away the filth of the sons and daughters of Zion, and shall purge out the blood from the midst of them, with the spirit of judgment, and the spirit of burning.
Jeremiah 8:5Wherefore has this my people turned away with a shameless revolting, and strengthened themselves in their willfulness, and refused to return?
Jeremiah 13:10even this great pride of the men that will not hearken to my words, and have gone after strange gods, to serve them, and to worship them: and they shall be as this girdle, which can be used for nothing.
Jeremiah 20:10For I have heard the reproach of many gathering round, saying, Conspire ye, and let us conspire together against him, even all his friends: watch his intentions, if perhaps he shall be deceived, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall be avenged on him.
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 →