'Deceit' in the Bible

As a cage full of fowls, So their houses are full of deceit, Therefore they have been great, and are rich.

Wherefore hath this people of Jerusalem Turned back -- a perpetual backsliding? They have kept hold on deceit, They have refused to turn back.

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

A slaughtering arrow is their tongue, Deceit it hath spoken in its mouth, Peace with its neighbour it speaketh, And in its heart it layeth its ambush,

And Jehovah saith unto me: Falsehood the prophets are prophesying in My name, I did not send them, nor command them, Nor have I spoken unto them: A false vision, and divination, and vanity, And the deceit of their own heart, they are prophesying to you.

Till when is it in the heart of the prophets? The prophets of falsehood, Yea, prophets of the deceit of their heart,