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Jeremiah 9:5

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Everyone lies to his friend, and no one speaks the truth. The people of Judah have taught their tongues to lie. They have become tired from sinning.

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They struck those outside the door with blindness, so the men, both young and old, could not find the door.

Your lies do not make people quiet; people should correct you when you make fun of God.

Your sin teaches your mouth what to say; you use words to trick others.

They make their tongues sharp as a snake’s; their words are like snake poison.Selah

You don’t stop your mouth from speaking evil, and your tongue makes up lies.

You love wrong more than right and lies more than truth.Selah

They sharpen their tongues like swords and shoot bitter words like arrows.

There are people who think up evil and plan trouble and tell lies.

The plans that good people make are fair, but the advice of the wicked will trick you.

because they cannot sleep until they do evil. They cannot rest until they harm someone.

How terrible it will be for those people! They pull their guilt and sins behind them as people pull wagons with ropes.

You were tired from doing these things, but you never gave up. You found new strength, so you did not quit.

The people have planted wheat, but they have harvested only thorns. They have worked hard until they were very tired, but they have nothing for all their work. They are ashamed of their poor harvest, because the Lord’s terrible anger has caused this.”

Even your own brothers and members of your own family are making plans against you. They are crying out against you. Don’t trust them, even when they say nice things to you!

Can a person from Cush change the color of his skin? Can a leopard change his spots? In the same way, Jerusalem, you cannot change and do good, because you are accustomed to doing evil.

The Lord says, “My people are foolish. They do not know me. They are stupid children; they don’t understand. They are skillful at doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”

This is what the Lord All-Powerful says: “Babylon’s thick wall will be completely pulled down and her high gates burned. The people will work hard, but it won’t help; their work will only become fuel for the flames!”

Then say, ‘In the same way Babylon will sink and will not rise again because of the terrible things I will make happen here. Her people will fall.’ ” The words of Jeremiah end here.

So say to them, ‘This is the nation that has not obeyed the Lord its God. These people do nothing when I correct them. They do not tell the truth; it has disappeared from their lips.

“They use their tongues like a bow, shooting lies from their mouths like arrows. Lies, not truth, have grown strong in the land. They go from one evil thing to another. They do not know who I am,” says the Lord.

Their tongues are like sharp arrows. Their mouths speak lies. Everyone speaks nicely to his neighbor, but he is secretly planning to attack him.

But efforts to clean the pot have failed. Its heavy rust cannot be removed, even in the fire.

The rich people of the city do cruel things. Its people tell lies; they do not tell the truth.

He says, “My people, what did I do to you? How did I make you tired of me? Tell me.

The Lord All-Powerful will send fire to destroy what those people have built; all the nations’ work will be for nothing.

We all have the same father; the same God made us. So why do people break their promises to each other and show no respect for the agreement our ancestors made with God?

So you must stop telling lies. Tell each other the truth, because we all belong to each other in the same body.

Such teachings come from the false words of liars whose consciences are destroyed as if by a hot iron.

After those people had died, their children grew up and did not know the Lord or what he had done for Israel.




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