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Jeremiah 9:5

Everyone lies to their neighbor. No one speaks the truth. The people of Judah have taught their tongues to lie. They sinned until they were too tired to come back.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Deceit;   Dishonesty;   Falsehood;   Truth;   Wicked (People);   Thompson Chain Reference - Deceit;   Truth;   Truth-Falsehood;   The Topic Concordance - Alertness;   Trust;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Deceit;   Lying;   Prophets;   Truth;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Knowledge of God;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Gall;   Neighbor;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Pollution ;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Text of the Old Testament;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Ethics;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for January 5;   Today's Word from Skip Moen - Devotion for December 19;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Each one betrays his friend;no one tells the truth.They have taught their tongues to speak lies;they wear themselves out doing wrong.
Hebrew Names Version
They will deceive everyone his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they weary themselves to commit iniquity.
King James Version
And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.
English Standard Version
Everyone deceives his neighbor, and no one speaks the truth; they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they weary themselves committing iniquity.
New American Standard Bible
"Everyone deceives his neighbor And does not speak the truth. They have taught their tongue to speak lies; They weary themselves committing wrongdoing.
New Century Version
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.
Amplified Bible
"Everyone deceives and mocks his neighbor And does not speak the truth. They have taught their tongue to speak lies; They exhaust themselves with sin and cruelty.
World English Bible
They will deceive everyone his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they weary themselves to commit iniquity.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And euery one wil deceiue his friende, and wil not speake the trueth: for they haue taught their tongues to speake lies, and take great paynes to do wickedly.
Legacy Standard Bible
Everyone deceives his neighborAnd does not speak the truth;They have taught their tongue to speak lies;They weary themselves committing iniquity.
Berean Standard Bible
Each one betrays his friend; no one tells the truth. They have taught their tongues to lie; they wear themselves out committing iniquity.
Contemporary English Version
They wear themselves out, always looking for a new way to cheat their friends.
Complete Jewish Bible
"You inhabit a world of deceit; deceitfully they refuse to know me," says Adonai .
Darby Translation
And they act deceitfully every one with his neighbour, and speak not the truth: they teach their tongue to speak falsehood, they weary themselves with perverse dealing.
George Lamsa Translation
And every man will lie against his neighbor and will not speak the truth; they have taught their tongues to speak lies, they are weary and worn out.
Good News Translation
They all mislead their friends, and no one tells the truth; they have taught their tongues to lie and will not give up their sinning. They do one violent thing after another, and one deceitful act follows another. The Lord says that his people reject him. <
Lexham English Bible
And everyone deceives his neighbor, and they do not speak the truth, they have taught their tongues to speak lies, they are tired from going astray.
Literal Translation
And everyone will deceive his neighbor, and they will not speak the truth. They have taught their tongue to speak lies. They weary themselves to commit iniquity.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Yee one dissembleth with another, and they deale with no treuth. They haue practised their tunges to lye, and taken greate paynes to do myschefe.
American Standard Version
And they will deceive every one his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they weary themselves to commit iniquity.
Bible in Basic English
Everyone will make sport of his neighbour with deceit, not saying what is true: their tongues have been trained to say false words; they are twisted, hating to come back.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Thy habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know Me, saith the LORD.
King James Version (1611)
And they will deceiue euery one his neighbour, and will not speake the trueth, they haue taught their tongue to speake lies, and weary themselues to commit iniquity.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Yea, one dissembleth with another, and they deale with no trueth: They haue practised their tongues to lye, and taken great paynes to do mischiefe.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Every one will mock his friend; they will not speak truth: their tongue has learned to speak falsehoods; they have committed iniquity, they ceased not, so as to return.
English Revised Version
And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they weary themselves to commit iniquity.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And a man schal scorne his brother, and schal not speke treuthe; for thei tauyten her tunge to speke leesyng; thei traueliden to do wickidli.
Update Bible Version
And they will deceive every one his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, perversion; they are unable to come back.
Webster's Bible Translation
And they will deceive every one his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, [and] weary themselves to commit iniquity.
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.
New King James Version
Everyone will deceive his neighbor, And will not speak the truth; They have taught their tongue to speak lies; They weary themselves to commit iniquity.
New Living Translation
They all fool and defraud each other; no one tells the truth. With practiced tongues they tell lies; they wear themselves out with all their sinning.
New Life Bible
Every one fools his neighbor, and does not tell the truth. They have taught their tongue to tell lies. They become tired doing so many sins.
New Revised Standard
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.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Yea, every one, of his neighbour, maketh a dupe, And, truth, they do not speak, - They have taught their tongue to speak falsehood, In acting perversely, they have wearied themselves.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And a man shall mock his brother, and they will not speak the truth: for they have taught their tongue to speak lies: they have laboured to commit iniquity.
Revised Standard Version
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.
Young's Literal Translation
And each at his friend they mock, And truth they do not speak, They taught their tongue to speak falsehood, To commit iniquity they have laboured.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Everyone deceives his neighbor And does not speak the truth, They have taught their tongue to speak lies; They weary themselves committing iniquity.

Contextual Overview

1 If my head were filled with water, and if my eyes were a fountain of tears, I would cry day and night for my people who have been destroyed. 2 If only I had a place in the desert— a house where travelers spend the night— so I could leave my people. I could go away from them, because they are all unfaithful to God. They have all turned against him. 3 "They use their tongues like a bow; lies fly from their mouths like arrows. Lies, not truth, have grown strong in this land. They go from one sin to another. They don't know me." This is what the Lord said. 4 "Watch your neighbors! Don't trust your own brothers, because every brother is a cheat. Every neighbor talks behind your back. 5 Everyone lies to their neighbor. No one speaks the truth. The people of Judah have taught their tongues to lie. They sinned until they were too tired to come back. 6 One bad thing followed another, and lies followed lies. The people refused to know me." This is what the Lord said. 7 So the Lord All-Powerful says, "A worker heats metal in a fire to test it and see if it is pure. I will test the people of Judah like that. I have no other choice. My people have sinned. 8 The people of Judah have tongues as sharp as arrows. Their mouths speak lies. They all speak kindly to their neighbors, but they are secretly planning ways to attack them. 9 Should I punish the people of Judah for doing these things?" This message is from the Lord . "You know I should punish a nation such as this. I should give it the punishment it deserves." 10 I, Jeremiah, will cry for the mountains. I will sing a funeral song for the empty fields, because all the animals were taken away. No one travels there now. The sounds of cattle cannot be heard. The birds have flown away, and the animals are gone.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

they will: Jeremiah 9:5, Jeremiah 9:8, Isaiah 59:13-15, Micah 6:12, Ephesians 4:25

deceive: or, mock, Job 11:3

taught: Jeremiah 9:3, Job 15:5, Psalms 50:19, Psalms 64:3, Psalms 140:3, 1 Timothy 4:2

weary: Genesis 19:11, Psalms 7:14, Proverbs 4:16, Isaiah 5:18, Isaiah 41:6, Isaiah 41:7, Isaiah 44:12-14, Isaiah 57:10, Ezekiel 24:12, Micah 6:3, Habakkuk 2:13

Reciprocal: Leviticus 6:2 - deceived Judges 14:20 - his friend 2 Kings 5:22 - My master Job 6:15 - My brethren Psalms 109:2 - with Psalms 116:11 - All Jeremiah 13:23 - accustomed Malachi 2:10 - why

Cross-References

Genesis 9:1
God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, "Have many children. Fill the earth with your people.
Genesis 9:9
"I now make my promise to you and to your people who will live after you.
Genesis 9:10
I make my promise to all the birds, and to all the cattle, and to all the animals that came out of the boat with you. I make my promise to every living thing on earth.
Genesis 9:28
After the flood Noah lived 350 years.
Genesis 9:29
He lived a total of 950 years; then he died.
Exodus 20:13
"You must not murder anyone.
Exodus 21:12
"Whoever hits and kills someone must be killed too.
Leviticus 19:16
You must not go around spreading false stories against other people. Don't do anything that would put your neighbor's life in danger. I am the Lord .
Psalms 9:12
He punishes murderers and remembers those who are in need. When suffering people cry for help, he does not ignore them.
Matthew 23:35
"So you will be guilty for the death of all the good people who have been killed on earth. You will be guilty for the killing of that godly man Abel. And you will be guilty for the killing of Zechariah son of Berachiah. He was killed between the Temple and the altar. You will be guilty for the killing of all the good people who lived between the time of Abel and the time of Zechariah.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they will deceive everyone his neighbour,.... In conversation, with lying words; and in trade and commerce, by art and tricking:

and will not speak the truth; with respect to facts they report, or goods they sell:

they have taught their tongue to speak lies; and become so accustomed to lying that they cannot do otherwise; it is as it were natural to them:

and weary themselves to commit iniquity; spared no pains to come at it, nor any in it, and go on even to weariness; are more laborious and indefatigable in committing sin than good men are in doing good; which shows great folly and stupidity. The Targum is,

"they are become foolish, they have erred.''

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

From their punishment the prophet now turns to their sins.

Jeremiah 9:2

The prophet utters the wish that he might be spared his daily striving, and in some lone wilderness give way to his sorrow, without restraint.

A lodging place - It was usual to build in the desert, either by private charity or at the public expense, caravanserais, to receive travelers for a single night, who had however to bring their own supplies with them.

An assembly - Or, a gang.

Treacherous - Faithless toward one another.

Jeremiah 9:3

Rather, “And they bend their tongue to be their bow of lies, i. e.” just as men before a battle get their bows ready, so they of set purpose make ready to do mischief, only their arrows are lying words: “neither do they rule faithfully in the land, i. e.” Judaea.

Jeremiah 9:4

In a state of such utter lawlessness, the bonds of mutual confidence are relaxed, and suspicion takes its place.

Utterly supplant - An allusion to the name of Jacob Genesis 27:36. It might be rendered, “every brother is a thorough Jacob.”

Will walk with slanders - Or, slandereth.

Jeremiah 9:6

A continuation of the warning given in Jeremiah 9:4. “Trust no one: for thou dwellest surrounded by deceit on every side.” Their rejection of God is the result of their want of honesty in their dealings with one another 1 John 4:20.

Jeremiah 9:7

I will melt them, and try them - The punishment is corrective rather than retributive. The terms used are those of the refiner of metals, the first being the smelting to separate the pure metal from the ore; the second the testing to see whether the metal is pure, or still mixed with alloy. God will put the nation into the crucible of tribulation, that whatever is evil being consumed in the fire, all there is in them of good may be purified.

For how shall I do ... - Rather, “for how” else could I act with reference to the “daughter of my people?”

Jeremiah 9:8

An arrow shot out - Rather, “a murderous arrow.”

In heart he layeth his wait - Rather, “inwardly he layeth his ambush.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 9:5. And weary themselves to commit iniquity. — O, what a drudgery is sin! and how much labour must a man take in order to get to hell! The tenth part of it, in working together with God, would bring him to the gate of glory.


 
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