Jeremiah 9:8

American Standard Version 2015

Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaketh deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart he layeth wait for him.

Cross References

Psalm 28:3

Draw me not away with the wicked,\par\tab And with the workers of iniquity;\par\tab That speak peace with their neighbors,\par\tab But mischief is in their hearts.

Jeremiah 9:3

And they bend their tongue, {\i as it were} their bow, for falsehood; and they are grown strong in the land, but not for truth: for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith Jehovah.

Psalm 120:3

What shall be given unto thee, and what shall be done more unto thee,\par\tab Thou deceitful tongue?

Psalm 57:4

My soul is among lions;\par\tab I lie among them that are set on fire,\par\tab Even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows,\par\tab And their tongue a sharp sword.

Psalm 55:21

His mouth was smooth as butter,\par\tab But his heart was war:\par\tab His words were softer than oil,\par\tab Yet were they drawn swords.

Psalm 12:2

They speak falsehood every one with his neighbor:\par\tab With flattering lip, and with a double heart, do 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 every 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 lie 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:\par\tab All that see them shall wag the head.

Psalm 35:20

For they speak not peace;\par\tab But they devise deceitful words against them that are quiet in the land.

Proverbs 25:18

A man that beareth false witness against his neighbor\par\tab Is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow.

Jeremiah 9:4

Take ye heed every 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 thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

Psalm 12:3

Jehovah will cut off all flattering lips,\par\tab The tongue that speaketh great things;

Psalm 62:5

My soul, wait thou in silence for God only;\par\tab For my expectation is from him.

Jeremiah 5:9

Shall I not visit for these things? saith Jehovah; and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?\par