Jeremiah 9:8

A Conservative Version

Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks deceit. He speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart he lays wait for him.

Cross References

Psalm 28:3

Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, who speak peace with their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.

Jeremiah 9:3

And they bend their tongue--their bow--for falsehood, and they have grown strong in the land, but not for truth. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, says LORD.

Psalm 120:3

What shall be given to thee, and what shall be done more to thee, thou deceitful tongue?

Psalm 57:4

My soul is among lions. I lay among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

Psalm 55:21

His mouth was smooth as butter, but his heart was war. His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.

Psalm 12:2

They speak falsehood everyone with his neighbor. With flattering lip, and with a double heart, they speak.

2 Samuel 3:27

And when Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the midst of the gate to speak with him quietly, and smote him there in the body, so that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.

Jeremiah 9:5

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

Jeremiah 5:26

For among my people are found wicked men. They watch as fowlers lay in wait. They set a trap; they catch men.

Psalm 64:8

So they shall be made to stumble, their own tongue being against them. All who see them shall wag the head.

Psalm 35:20

For they speak not peace, but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.

Proverbs 25:18

A man who bears FALSE witness against his neighbor is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow.

Jeremiah 9:4

Take ye heed each one of his neighbor, and trust ye not in any brother, for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go about with slanders.

Micah 6:12

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

Psalm 12:3

LORD will cut off all flattering lips, the tongue that speaks great things,

Psalm 62:5

My soul, wait thou in silence for God only, for my expectation is from him.

Jeremiah 5:9

Shall I not visit for these things? says LORD. And shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?