Jeremiah 9:2

Tree of Life Version

They bend their tongue like a bow. Lies, not faithfulness, prevail in the land. “For they go from evil to evil and do not know Me,” says Adonai.

Cross References

Isaiah 59:3

For your hands are defiled with blood and your fingers with iniquity. Your lips have spoken lies, your tongue mutters wickedness.

Jeremiah 12:1

Righteous are You, Adonai, when I plead my case with You. Yet I speak with You about justice. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all the treacherous thrive?

Jeremiah 12:6

For even your brothers —your father’s house— even they will betray you, even they will shout out after you. Have no confidence in them, even if they say nice words to you.”

Jeremiah 13:22

Suppose you say in your heart, “Why did these things happen to me?” Because of your great iniquity, your skirts are uncovered and your heels suffer violence.

Jeremiah 23:10

For the land is full of adulterers. The land mourns because of a curse. Pastures of the wilderness are dry. Their running is evil, and their might is not right.

Jeremiah 4:22

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

Jeremiah 5:1

Roam the streets of Jerusalem, look around and consider, search through her squares! If you can find a person, if there is one who does justice, who seeks truth, then I will pardon the city.

Jeremiah 5:11

For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have been utterly unfaithful to Me.” It is a declaration of Adonai.

Jeremiah 5:2

Though they say, “As Adonai lives!” surely they swear falsely.

Hosea 4:2

Curse, deceive, murder, steal, commit adultery! They practice violence, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.

Hosea 5:7

They have betrayed Adonai, for they have begotten foreign children. Now the New Moon will devour them, with their portions.

Hosea 6:7

But like Adam, they transgressed a covenant. There they dealt treacherously with Me.

Hosea 7:4

All of them are practicing adultery, as an oven heated by a baker who stops stirring or kneading dough when it is leavened.

Micah 6:12

For the rich of the city are full of violence and its inhabitants speak lies. Their tongue in their mouth is deceit.

Zephaniah 3:4

Her prophets are reckless, treacherous men. Her kohanim have profaned what is holy. They do violence to Torah.

Malachi 2:11

Judah has dealt treacherously, an abomination done in Israel, even in Jerusalem! For Judah has defiled Adonai’s Sanctuary, which He loves, and married the daughter of a foreign god.

Malachi 2:14

Yet you say, “Why?” Because Adonai bears witness between you and the wife of your youth, whom you have treated deceitfully. Yet she had been your companion and your wife by covenant.

James 4:4

You adulteresses! Don’t you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

Judges 2:10

But when all that generation were gathered to their fathers, there arose another generation after them that did not experience Adonai or the work that He had done for Israel.