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

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

In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

For her rich men are full of violence, and her inhabitants have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

Therefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbor: for we are members one of another.

Deceive

Should your lies make men hold their peace? and when you mock, shall no man make you ashamed?

Taught

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 evil, and they know not me, says the LORD.

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

You give your mouth to evil, and your tongue frames deceit.

Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:

They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.

Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;

Weary

And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great: so that they wearied themselves trying to find the door.

Behold, he brought forth iniquity, and has conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.

For they sleep not, unless they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause someone to fall.

Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:

They helped everyone his neighbor; and everyone said to his brother, Be of good courage.

The blacksmith with the tongs works in the coals, and fashions it with hammers, and works it with the strength of his arms: yea, he is hungry, and his strength fails: he drinks no water, and is faint.

You are wearied in the length of your way; yet you said not, There is no hope: you have found the life of your own hand; therefore you were not grieved.

She has wearied herself with lies, and her great scum went not forth out of her: her scum shall be in the fire.

O my people, what have I done unto you? and in what have I wearied you? testify against me.

Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts that the people shall labor to feed the fire, and the people shall weary themselves in vain?

General references

And she laid up his garment by her, until his lord came home.

And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray you, where your great strength lies, and with what you might be bound to afflict you.

Why do you show me iniquity, and cause me to behold trouble? for plundering and violence are before me: and there are those that raise up strife and contention.

And the Jews also assented, saying that these things were so.