Jeremiah 9:5

New English Translation

One friend deceives another and no one tells the truth. These people have trained themselves to tell lies. They do wrong and are unable to repent.

Cross References

Genesis 19:11

Then they struck the men who were at the door of the house, from the youngest to the oldest, with blindness. The men outside wore themselves out trying to find the door.

Job 11:3

Will your idle talk reduce people to silence, and will no one rebuke you when you mock?

Job 15:5

Your sin inspires your mouth; you choose the language of the crafty.

Psalm 140:3

Their tongues wound like a serpent; a viper’s venom is behind their lips. (Selah)

Psalm 50:19

You do damage with words, and use your tongue to deceive.

Psalm 52:3

You love evil more than good, lies more than speaking the truth. (Selah)

Psalm 64:3

They sharpen their tongues like a sword; they aim their arrow, a slanderous charge,

Psalm 7:14

See the one who is pregnant with wickedness, who conceives destructive plans, and gives birth to harmful lies –

Proverbs 12:5

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

Proverbs 4:16

For they cannot sleep unless they cause harm; they are robbed of sleep until they make someone stumble.

Isaiah 5:18

Those who pull evil along using cords of emptiness are as good as dead, who pull sin as with cart ropes.

Isaiah 57:10

Because of the long distance you must travel, you get tired, but you do not say, ‘I give up.’ You get renewed energy, so you don’t collapse.

Jeremiah 12:13

My people will sow wheat, but will harvest weeds. They will work until they are exhausted, but will get nothing from it. They will be disappointed in their harvests because the Lord will take them away in his fierce anger.

Jeremiah 12:6

As a matter of fact, even your own brothers and the members of your own family have betrayed you too. Even they have plotted to do away with you. So do not trust them even when they say kind things to you.

Jeremiah 13:23

But there is little hope for you ever doing good, you who are so accustomed to doing evil. Can an Ethiopian change the color of his skin? Can a leopard remove its spots?

Jeremiah 4:22

The Lord answered, “This will happen because my people are foolish. They do not know me. They are like children who have no sense. They have no understanding. They are skilled at doing evil. They do not know how to do good.”

Jeremiah 51:58

This is what the Lord who rules over all says, “Babylon’s thick wall will be completely demolished. Her high gates will be set on fire. The peoples strive for what does not satisfy. The nations grow weary trying to get what will be destroyed.”

Jeremiah 51:64

Then say, ‘In the same way Babylon will sink and never rise again because of the judgments I am ready to bring upon her; they will grow faint.’” The prophecies of Jeremiah end here.

Jeremiah 7:28

So tell them: ‘This is a nation that has not obeyed the Lord their God and has not accepted correction. Faithfulness is nowhere to be found in it. These people do not even profess it anymore.

Jeremiah 9:3

The Lord says, “These people are like soldiers who have readied their bows. Their tongues are always ready to shoot out lies. They have become powerful in the land, but they have not done so by honest means. Indeed, they do one evil thing after another and do not pay attention to me.

Jeremiah 9:8

Their tongues are like deadly arrows. They are always telling lies. Friendly words for their neighbors come from their mouths. But their minds are thinking up ways to trap them.

Ezekiel 24:12

It has tried my patience; yet its thick rot is not removed from it. Subject its rot to the fire!

Micah 6:12

The city’s rich men think nothing of resorting to violence; her inhabitants lie, their tongues speak deceptive words.

Micah 6:3

“My people, how have I wronged you? How have I wearied you? Answer me!

Habakkuk 2:13

Be sure of this! The Lord who commands armies has decreed: The nations’ efforts will go up in smoke; their exhausting work will be for nothing.

Malachi 2:10

Do we not all have one father? Did not one God create us? Why do we betray one another, in this way making light of the covenant of our ancestors?

Ephesians 4:25

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

1 Timothy 4:2

influenced by the hypocrisy of liars whose consciences are seared.

Judges 2:10

That entire generation passed away; a new generation grew up that had not personally experienced the Lord’s presence or seen what he had done for Israel.