Jeremiah 9:5

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Each one betrays his friend; no one tells the truth. They have taught their tongues to speak lies; they wear themselves out doing wrong.

Cross References

Habakkuk 2:13

Is it not from the  Lord of Armies that the peoples labour only to fuel the fire and countries exhaust themselves for nothing?

Micah 6:12

For the wealthy of the city are full of violence, and its residents speak lies; the tongues in their mouths are deceitful.

Isaiah 57:10

You became weary on your many journeys, but you did not say, ‘It’s hopeless! ’ You found a renewal of your strength; therefore you did not grow weak.

Job 15:5

Your iniquity  teaches you what to say, and you choose the language of the crafty.

1 Timothy 4:2

through the hypocrisy  of liars whose consciences  are seared.

Ephesians 4:25

Therefore, putting away  lying, speak the truth, each one to his neighbour,   , because we are members of one another.

Micah 6:3

My people,  what have I done to you, or how have I wearied you? Testify against me!

Ezekiel 24:12

It has frustrated every effort; its thick corrosion will not come off. Into the fire with its corrosion!

Jeremiah 9:8

Their tongues are deadly arrows – they speak deception. With his mouth one speaks peaceably with his friend, but inwardly he sets up an ambush.

Jeremiah 9:3

They bent their tongues like their bows; lies and not faithfulness prevail in the land, for they proceed from one evil to another, and they do not take me into account. This is the  Lord’s declaration.

Isaiah 5:18

Woe to those who drag iniquity with cords of deceit and pull sin along with cart ropes,

Proverbs 4:16

For they can’t sleep unless they have done what is evil; they are robbed of sleep unless they make someone stumble.

Job 11:3

Should your babbling put others to silence, so that you can keep on ridiculing with no one to humiliate you?

Genesis 19:11

They struck the men who were at the entrance of the house, both young and old, with blindness  so that they were unable to find the entrance.

Jeremiah 7:28

Therefore, declare to them, “This is the nation that would not listen to the Lord their God and would not accept discipline. Truth  has perished #– #it has disappeared from their mouths.

Jeremiah 12:6

Even your brothers #– #your own father’s family – even they were treacherous to you; even they have cried out loudly after you. Do not have confidence in them, though they speak well of you.

Jeremiah 12:13

They have sown wheat but harvested thorns. They have exhausted themselves but have no profit. Be put to shame by your harvests because of the  Lord’s burning anger.

Jeremiah 13:23

Can the Cushite change his skin, or a leopard his spots? If so, you might be able to do what is good, you who are instructed in evil.

Jeremiah 51:58

This is what the Lord of Armies says: Babylon’s thick walls will be totally demolished, and her high gates set ablaze. The peoples will have laboured for nothing; the nations will weary themselves only to feed the fire.

Jeremiah 51:64

Then say, “In the same way, Babylon will sink and never rise again because of the disaster I am bringing on her. They will grow weary.” ’ The words of Jeremiah end here.

Malachi 2:10

Don’t all of us have one Father?  Didn’t one God create us?  Why then do we act treacherously against one another,  profaning  the covenant of our ancestors?

Judges 2:10

That whole generation was also gathered to their ancestors. After them another generation rose up who did not know the Lord   or the works he had done for Israel.

Proverbs 12:5

The thoughts of the righteous are just, but guidance from the wicked is deceitful.

Jeremiah 4:22

‘For my people are fools; they do not know me. They are foolish children, without understanding. They are skilled in doing what is evil, but they do not know how to do what is good.’