Jeremiah 9:5

Modern English Version

Everyone deceives his neighbor and does not speak the truth. They have taught their tongue to speak lies; they weary themselves in committing iniquity.

Cross References

Genesis 19:11

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

Job 11:3

Should your empty talk make men hold their peace? And when you mock, will no one shame you?

Job 15:5

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

Psalm 140:3

They sharpen their tongues like a serpent’s; under their lips is the venom of vipers.    Selah

Psalm 50:19

You give your mouth to evil, and your tongue frames deceit.

Psalm 52:3

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

Psalm 64:3

who sharpen their tongues like a sword, and aim bitter words like arrows,

Psalm 7:14

Behold, the wicked man writhes in pain of iniquity; he has conceived mischief and brought forth falsehood.

Proverbs 12:5

The thoughts of the righteous are just, but the counsels of the wicked are deceitful.

Proverbs 4:16

For they do not sleep unless they have done evil; their sleep is taken away unless they make someone stumble.

Isaiah 5:18

Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood and sin as if with a cart rope,

Isaiah 57:10

You were wearied by the length of your road; yet you did not say, “There is no hope.” You have found renewed strength; therefore, you did not faint.

Jeremiah 12:13

They have sown wheat, but reap thorns; they have strained themselves, but shall not profit. And they shall be ashamed of your harvest because of the fierce anger of the Lord.

Jeremiah 12:6

For even your brothers and the household of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you. Indeed, they have cried aloud after you. Do not believe them though they speak fair words to you.

Jeremiah 13:23

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

Jeremiah 4:22

“For My people are foolish, they have not known Me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.”

Jeremiah 51:58

Thus says the Lord of Hosts: The broad wall of Babylon will be utterly broken, and her high gates will be burned with fire; and the peoples will labor in vain, and the nations become exhausted only for fire.

Jeremiah 51:64

and say, ‘Thus Babylon will sink and not rise from the disaster that I will bring upon her, and they will become weary.’ ” Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.

Jeremiah 7:28

You shall say to them: This is a nation that does not obey the voice of the Lord their God or receive correction. Truth has perished, and has been cut off from their mouth.

Jeremiah 9:3

They bend their tongues like their bow; lies and not truth prevail upon the land; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know Me, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 9:8

Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks deceit. One speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart he lies in wait.

Ezekiel 24:12

She has wearied Me with toil, and her great rust has not gone from her. Let her rust be in the fire.

Micah 6:12

Her wealthy men are full of violence, and her inhabitants speak deception, and their tongue in their mouth is treachery.

Micah 6:3

“My people, what have I done to you, and how have I wearied you? Answer Me!

Habakkuk 2:13

Is it not from the Lord of Hosts that the people labor to feed fire, and the nations weary themselves for nothing?

Malachi 2:10

Have we not all one Father? Has not one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously with one another, by profaning the covenant of our fathers?

Ephesians 4:25

Therefore, putting away lying, let every man speak truthfully with his neighbor, for we are members of one another.

1 Timothy 4:2

speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their consciences seared with a hot iron,

Judges 2:10

That entire generation passed away, and after them grew up a generation who did not know the Lord or the deeds that He had done for Israel.