b Ps 55:6, 7; 120:5, 6
c Jer 5:7, 8; 23:10; Hos 4:2
d Jer 5:11; 12:1, 6
e Ps 64:3; Is 59:4; Jer 9:8
f Jer 4:22
g Judg 2:10; 1 Sam 2:12; Jer 4:22; 5:4, 5; Hos 4:1; 1 Cor 15:34
h Ps 12:2; Prov 26:24, 25; Jer 9:8; Mic 7:5, 6
i Jer 12:6
j Gen 27:35
l Ps 15:3; Prov 10:18; Jer 6:28
m Mic 6:12
n Jer 12:13; 51:58, 64
o Ps 120:5, 6; Jer 5:27; 8:5
p Job 21:14, 15; Prov 1:24; Jer 11:10; 13:10; John 3:19, 20
q Is 1:25; Jer 6:27; Mal 3:3
r Hos 11:8
s Jer 9:3
t Ps 28:3
u Jer 5:26
v Is 1:24; Jer 5:9, 29

Jeremiah 9:2-9

2 ▼
▼ Ch 9:1 in Heb
 , bOh that I had in the desert
A wayfarers’ lodging place;
That I might leave my people
And go from them!
For all of them are cadulterers,
An assembly of dtreacherous men.
 3“They ebend their tongue like their bow;
Lies and not truth prevail in the land;
For they fproceed from evil to evil,
And they gdo not know Me,” declares the Lord.
 4“Let everyone hbe on guard against his neighbor,
And ido not trust any brother;
Because every jbrother deals ▼
▼ I.e. like Jacob (a play on words)
craftily,
And every neighbor lgoes about as a slanderer.
 5“Everyone mdeceives his neighbor
And does not speak the truth,
They have taught their tongue to speak lies;
They nweary themselves committing iniquity.
 6“Your odwelling is in the midst of deceit;
Through deceit they prefuse to know Me,” declares the Lord.

7Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts, “Behold, I will refine them and qassay them;
For rwhat else can I do, because of the daughter of My people?
 8“Their stongue is a deadly arrow;
It speaks deceit;
With his mouth one tspeaks peace to his neighbor,
But inwardly he usets an ambush for him.
 9 v“Shall I not punish them for these things?” declares the Lord.
“On a nation such as this
Shall I not avenge Myself?
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