Jeremiah 9:5

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

Every one deceives his neighbor, and no one speaks the truth; they have taught their tongue 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 wearied themselves groping for the door.

Job 11:3

Should your babble silence men, 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 serpent's, and under their lips is the poison 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

Behold, the wicked man conceives evil, and is pregnant with mischief, and brings forth lies.

Proverbs 12:5

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

Proverbs 4:16

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

Isaiah 5:18

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

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.

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

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 4:22

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

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 naught, and the nations weary themselves only for fire.”

Jeremiah 51:64

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

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 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, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 9:8

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

Ezekiel 24:12

In vain I have wearied myself; its thick rust does not go out of it by fire.

Micah 6:12

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

Micah 6:3

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

Habakkuk 2:13

Behold, is it not from the Lord of hosts that peoples labor only for fire, and nations weary themselves for naught?

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?

Ephesians 4:25

Therefore, putting away falsehood, let every one speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another.

1 Timothy 4:2

through the pretensions of liars whose consciences are seared,

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 which he had done for Israel.