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Jeremiah 9:5

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And a man shall mock his brother, and they will not speak the truth: for they have taught their tongue to speak lies, they have laboured to commit iniquity.

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Are not these things from the Lord of hosts? for the people shall labour in a great fire: and the nations in vain, and they shall faint.

By which her rich men were filled with iniquity, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue was deceitful in their mouth.

Thou hast been wearied in the multitude of thy ways: yet thou saidst not: I will rest. Thou hast found life of thy hand: therefore thou hast not asked.

For thy iniquity hath taught thy mouth, and thou imitatest the tongue of blasphemers.

Speaking lies in hypocrisy, and having their conscience seared,

Wherefore putting away lying, speak ye the truth every man with his neighbour; for we are members one of another.

O my people, what have I done to thee, or in what have I molested thee? answer thou me.

Great pains have been taken, and the great rust thereof is not gone out, not even by fire.

Their tongue is a piercing arrow: it hath spoken deceit. With his mouth one speaketh peace with his friend, and secretly he lieth in wait for him.

And they have bent their tongue, as a bow, for lies and not for truth: they have strengthened themselves upon the earth: for they have proceeded from evil to evil, and me they have not known, saith the Lord.

Woe to you that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as the rope of a cart.

For they sleep not except they have done evil: and their sleep is taken away unless they have made some to fall.

Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth: and a door round about my lips.

O hear my prayer: all flesh shall come to thee.

A sacrifice to God is an afflicted spirit: a contrite and humbled heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

And in it he hath prepared the instruments of death, he hath made ready his arrows for them that burn.

Shall men hold their peace to thee only? And when thou hast mocked others, shall no man confute thee?

And them that were without, they struck with blindness from the least to the greatest, so that they could not find the door.

God looked down from heaven on the children of men: to see if there were any that did understand, or did seek God.

And thou shalt say to them: This is a nation which hath not hearkened to the voice of the Lord their God nor received instruction. Faith is lost and is taken away out of their mouth.

For even thy brethren and the house of thy father, even they have fought against thee, and have cried after thee with full voice. Believe them not when they speak good things to thee.

They have sown wheat and reaped thorns: they have received an inheritance, and it shall not profit them: you shall be ashamed of your fruits, because of the fierce wrath of the Lord.

If the Ethiopian can change his skin or the leopard his spots: you may also do well when you have learned evil.

Thus saith the Lord of hosts: That broad wall of Babylon shall be utterly broken down, and her high gates shall be burnt with fire, and the labours of the people shall come to nothing, and of the nations shall go to the fire and shall perish.

And thou shalt say: Thus shall Babylon sink, and she shall not rise up from the affliction that I will bring upon her, and she shall be utterly destroyed. Thus far are the words of Jeremias.

Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why then doth every one of us despise his brother, violating the covenant of our fathers?

And all that generation was gathered to their fathers: and there arose others that knew not the Lord, and the works which he had done for Israel.

The thoughts of the just are judgments: and the counsels of the wicked are deceitful.

For my foolish people have not known me: they are foolish and senseless children. They are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.




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