Jeremiah 9:5

English Standard Version 2016

Everyone deceives his neighbor, and no one speaks the truth; they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they weary themselves committing iniquity.

Cross References

Habakkuk 2:13

Behold, is it not from the Lord of hosts that peoples labor merely for fire, and nations weary themselves for nothing?

Micah 6:12

Your rich men are full of violence; your inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

Isaiah 57:10

You were wearied with the length of your way, but you did not say, “It is hopeless”; you found new life for your strength, and so you were not faint.

Job 15:5

For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the tongue of the crafty.

1 Timothy 4:2

through the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared,

Ephesians 4:25

Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another.

Micah 6:3

“O my people, what have I done to you? How have I wearied you? Answer me!

Ezekiel 24:12

She has wearied herself with toil; its abundant corrosion does not go out of it. Into the fire with its corrosion!

Jeremiah 9:8

Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks deceitfully; with his mouth each speaks peace to his neighbor, but in his heart he plans an ambush for him.

Jeremiah 9:3

They bend their tongue like a bow; falsehood and not truth has grown strong in the land; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, declares the Lord.

Isaiah 5:18

Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, who draw sin as with cart ropes,

Proverbs 4:16

For they cannot sleep unless they have done wrong; they are robbed of sleep unless they have made someone stumble.

Psalm 140:3

They make their tongue sharp as a serpent’s, and under their lips is the venom of asps. Selah

Psalm 64:3

who whet their tongues like swords, who aim bitter words like arrows,

Psalm 50:19

“You give your mouth free rein for evil, and your tongue frames deceit.

Psalm 7:14

Behold, the wicked man conceives evil and is pregnant with mischief and gives birth to lies.

Job 11:3

Should your babble silence men, and when you mock, shall no one shame you?

Genesis 19:11

And they struck with blindness the men who were at the entrance of the house, both small and great, so that they wore themselves out groping for the door.

Psalm 52:3

You love evil more than good, and lying more than speaking what is right. Selah

Jeremiah 7:28

And you shall say to them, ‘This is the nation that did not obey the voice of the Lord their God, and did not accept discipline; truth has perished; it is cut off from their lips.

Jeremiah 12:6

For even your brothers and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you; they are in full cry after you; do not believe them, though they speak friendly words to you.”

Jeremiah 12:13

They have sown wheat and have reaped thorns; they have tired themselves out but profit nothing. They shall be ashamed of their harvests because of the fierce anger of the Lord.”

Jeremiah 13:23

Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his spots? Then also you can do good who are accustomed to do evil.

Jeremiah 51:58

“Thus says the Lord of hosts: The broad wall of Babylon shall be leveled to the ground, and her high gates shall be burned with fire. The peoples labor for nothing, and the nations weary themselves only for fire.”

Jeremiah 51:64

and say, ‘Thus shall Babylon sink, to rise no more, because of the disaster that I am bringing upon her, and they shall become exhausted.’” Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.

Malachi 2:10

Have we not all one Father? Has not one God created us? Why then are we faithless to one another, profaning the covenant of our fathers?

Judges 2:10

And all that generation also were gathered to their fathers. And there arose another generation after them who did not know the Lord or the work that he had done for Israel.

Proverbs 12:5

The thoughts of the righteous are just; the counsels of the wicked are deceitful.

Jeremiah 4:22

“For my people are foolish; they know me not; they are stupid children; they have no understanding. They are ‘wise’—in doing evil! But how to do good they know not.”