Jeremiah 9:5

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

They all deceive their neighbors, and no one speaks the truth; they have taught their tongues to speak lies; they commit iniquity and are too weary to repent.

Cross References

Genesis 19:11

And they struck with blindness the men who were at the door of the house, both small and great, so that they were unable to find the door.

Job 11:3

Should your babble put others to silence, and when you mock, shall no one shame you?

Job 15:5

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

Psalm 140:3

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

Psalm 50:19

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

Psalm 52:3

You love evil more than good and lying more than speaking the truth. Selah

Psalm 64:3

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

Psalm 7:14

See how they conceive evil and are pregnant with mischief and bring forth lies.

Proverbs 12:5

The thoughts of the righteous are just; the advice of the wicked is treacherous.

Proverbs 4:16

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

Isaiah 5:18

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

Isaiah 57:10

You grew weary from your many wanderings, but you did not say, “It is no use!” You found your desire rekindled, and so you did not weaken.

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 12:6

For even your kinsfolk and your own family, 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 13:23

Can Cushites change their skin or leopards their spots? Then also you can do good, who are accustomed to do evil.

Jeremiah 4:22

“For my people are foolish; they do not know me; they are stupid children; they have no understanding. They are skilled in doing evil but do not know how to do good.”

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 exhaust themselves for nothing, the nations only for fire, and they have become weary.

Jeremiah 51:64

and say, ‘Thus shall Babylon sink, to rise no more, because of the disasters that I am bringing on her.’ ” Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.

Jeremiah 7:28

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 9:3

They bend their tongues like bows; they have grown strong in the land for falsehood and not for truth, 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 through the mouth. They all speak friendly words to their neighbors but inwardly are planning to lay an ambush.

Ezekiel 24:12

In vain I have wearied myself; its thick crud does not depart. To the fire with its crud!

Micah 6:12

Your wealthy are full of violence; your inhabitants speak lies with tongues of deceit in their mouths.

Micah 6:3

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

Habakkuk 2:13

Is it not from the Lord of hosts that peoples labor only to feed the flames and nations weary themselves for nothing?

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 ancestors?

Ephesians 4:25

So then, putting away falsehood, let each of you speak the truth with your neighbor, for we are members of one another.

1 Timothy 4:2

through the hypocrisy of liars whose consciences are seared with a hot iron.

Judges 2:10

Moreover, that whole generation was gathered to their ancestors, and another generation grew up after them who did not know the Lord or the work that he had done for Israel.