Jeremiah 9:5

And each at his friend they mock, And truth they do not speak, They taught their tongue to speak falsehood, To commit iniquity they have laboured.

Young's Literal Translation

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

4Each of his friend — beware ye, And on any brother, do not trust, For every brother doth utterly supplant, For every friend slanderously doth walk,

6thy dwelling [is] in the midst of deceit, Through deceit they refused to know Me, An affirmation of Jehovah.

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Cross References

Judges 2:10and also all that generation have been gathered unto their fathers, and another generation riseth after them who have not known Jehovah, and even the work which He hath done to Israel.

Job 15:5For thy mouth teacheth thine iniquity, And thou chooseth the tongue of the subtile.

Psalms 50:19Thy mouth thou hast sent forth with evil, And thy tongue joineth deceit together,

Psalms 140:3They sharpened their tongue as a serpent, Poison of an adder [is] under their lips. Selah.

Proverbs 12:5The thoughts of the righteous [are] justice, The counsels of the wicked — deceit.

Isaiah 41:6Each his neighbour they help, And to his brother he saith, 'Be strong.'

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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