Jeremiah 9:5

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Summary

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.

They will

Deceive

Job 11:3

Taught

Weary

General references

Bible References

They will

Everyone deceives his neighbor, and no one speaks the truth; they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they weary themselves committing iniquity.

transgressing, and denying the LORD, and turning back from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart lying words.

Your rich men are full of violence; your inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another.

Deceive

Should your babble silence men, and when you mock, shall no one shame you?

Taught

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.

For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the tongue of the crafty.

"You give your mouth free rein for evil, and your tongue frames deceit.

who whet their tongues like swords, who aim bitter words like arrows,

They make their tongue sharp as a serpent's, and under their lips is the venom of asps. Selah

through the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared,

Weary

And they struck with blindness the men who were at the entrance of the house, both small and great, so that they wore themselves out groping for the door.

Behold, the wicked man conceives evil and is pregnant with mischief and gives birth to lies.

For they cannot sleep unless they have done wrong; they are robbed of sleep unless they have made someone stumble.

Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, who draw sin as with cart ropes,

Everyone helps his neighbor and says to his brother, "Be strong!"

The ironsmith takes a cutting tool and works it over the coals. He fashions it with hammers and works it with his strong arm. He becomes hungry, and his strength fails; he drinks no water and is faint.

You were wearied with the length of your way, but you did not say, "It is hopeless"; you found new life for your strength, and so you were not faint.

She has wearied herself with toil; its abundant corrosion does not go out of it. Into the fire with its corrosion!

"O my people, what have I done to you? How have I wearied you? Answer me!

Behold, is it not from the LORD of hosts that peoples labor merely for fire, and nations weary themselves for nothing?

General references

Then she laid up his garment by her until his master came home,

So Delilah said to Samson, "Please tell me where your great strength lies, and how you might be bound, that one could subdue you."

Why do you make me see iniquity, and why do you idly look at wrong? Destruction and violence are before me; strife and contention arise.

The Jews also joined in the charge, affirming that all these things were so.