Jeremiah 9:8

Shall I not visit for these things? saith the Lord: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a people as this?

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait.

In Context

7Their tongue is a wounding arrow; the words of their mouth are deceitful: one speaks peaceably to his neighbor, but in himself retains enmity.

9Take up a lamentation for the mountains, and a mournful dirge for the paths of the wilderness, for they are desolate for want of men; they heard not the sound of life from the birds of the sky, nor the cattle: they were amazed, they are gone.

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Cross References

2 Samuel 20:9And Joab said to Amasa, Art thou in health, my brother? and the right hand of Joab took hold of the beard of Amasa to kiss him.

Psalms 12:3Look on me, hearken to me, O Lord my God: 1 Lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep in death; 1

Psalms 62:5Thus will I bless thee during my life: 1 I will lift up my hands in thy name. 1

Psalms 64:8Who troublest the depth of the sea, 1 The sounds of its waves. 1

Proverbs 26:24A weeping enemy promises all things with his lips, 1 But in his heart he contrives deceit. 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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