Jer 9:3-5 | ESV | STEP | They bend their tongue like a bow ; falsehood and not truth has grown strong in the land ; for they proceed from evil to evil , and they do not know me, declares the Lord .

Jeremiah 9:3-5

3 ^aThey bend their tongue like a bow;
falsehood and not truth has grown strong ^{▼▼Septuagint; Hebrew and not for truth they have grown strong} in the land;
for they proceed from evil to evil,
^cand they do not know me, declares the Lord.
4 ^dLet everyone beware of his neighbor,
and put no trust in any brother,
for every ^ebrother is a deceiver,
and every neighbor ^fgoes about as a slanderer.
5 Everyone deceives his neighbor,
and no one speaks the truth;
they have taught their tongue to speak lies;
they weary themselves committing iniquity.