Jeremiah 9:8
Their tongue is as an arow shot out, and speaketh deceite: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in his heart hee layeth waite for him.
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2 Samuel 20:9And Ioab sayde to Amasa, Art thou in health, my brother? and Ioab tooke Amasa by the beard with the right hand to kisse him.
Psalms 12:3The Lord cut off all flattering lippes, and the tongue that speaketh proude things:
Psalms 55:21The wordes of his mouth were softer then butter, yet warre was in his heart: his words were more gentle then oyle, yet they were swordes.
Psalms 62:5Yet my soule keepe thou silence vnto God: for mine hope is in him.
Psalms 64:8They shall cause their owne tongue to fall vpon them: and whosoeuer shall see them, shall flee away.
Proverbs 26:24He that hateth, will counterfaite with his lips, but in his heart he layeth vp deceite.
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 →