Jeremiah 9:5

And they will deceive every one his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.

Webster Bible

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

4Take ye heed every one of his neighbor, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will walk with slanders.

6Thy habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD.

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Cross References

Judges 2:10And also all that generation were gathered to their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, which knew not the LORD, nor yet the works which he had done for Israel.

Job 15:5For thy mouth uttereth thy iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.

Psalms 50:19Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.

Psalms 140:3They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adder's poison is under their lips. Selah.

Proverbs 12:5The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit.

Isaiah 41:6They helped every one his neighbor; and every one said to his brother, Be of good courage.

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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