Jeremiah 9:6

Bible in Basic English (1941)

There is wrong on wrong, deceit on deceit; they have given up the knowledge of me, says the Lord.

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  • Prov 1:24 : 24 Because your ears were shut to my voice; no one gave attention to my out-stretched hand;
  • Prov 1:29 : 29 For they were haters of knowledge, and did not give their hearts to the fear of the Lord:
  • Jer 13:10 : 10 These evil people who say they will not give ear to my words, who go on in the pride of their hearts and have become servants and worshippers of other gods, will become like this band which is of no use for anything.
  • Job 21:14-15 : 14 Though they said to God, Go away from us, for we have no desire for the knowledge of your ways. 15 What is the Ruler of all, that we may give him worship? and what profit is it to us to make prayer to him?
  • John 3:19-20 : 19 And this is the test by which men are judged: the light has come into the world and men have more love for the dark than for the light, because their acts are evil. 20 The light is hated by everyone whose acts are evil and he does not come to the light for fear that his acts will be seen.
  • Rom 1:28 : 28 And because they had not the mind to keep God in their knowledge, God gave them up to an evil mind, to do those things which are not right;
  • 1 Cor 15:34 : 34 Be awake to righteousness and keep yourselves from sin; for some have no knowledge of God: I say this to put you to shame.
  • Ps 120:2-6 : 2 O Lord, be the saviour of my soul from false lips, and from the tongue of deceit. 3 What punishment will he give you? what more will he do to you, you false tongue? 4 Sharp arrows of the strong, and burning fire. 5 Sorrow is mine because I am strange in Meshech, and living in the tents of Kedar. 6 My soul has long been living with the haters of peace.
  • Jer 18:18 : 18 Then they said, Come, let us make a design against Jeremiah; for teaching will never be cut off from the priest, or wisdom from the wise, or the word from the prophet. Come, let us make use of his words for an attack on him, and let us give attention with care to what he says.
  • Jer 20:10 : 10 For numbers of them say evil secretly in my hearing (there is fear on every side): they say, Come, let us give witness against him; all my nearest friends, who are watching for my fall, say, It may be that he will be taken by deceit, and we will get the better of him and give him punishment.
  • Hos 4:6 : 6 Destruction has overtaken my people because they have no knowledge; because you have given up knowledge, I will give you up, so that you will be no priest to me, because you have not kept in mind the law of your God, I will not keep your children in my memory.
  • Jer 5:27 : 27 As the fowl-house is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: for this reason they have become great and have got wealth.
  • Jer 8:5 : 5 Why do these people of Jerusalem go back, for ever turning away? they will not give up their deceit, they will not come back.
  • Jer 11:19 : 19 But I was like a gentle lamb taken to be put to death; I had no thought that they were designing evil against me, saying, Come and let us make trouble his food, cutting him off from the land of the living, so that there may be no more memory of his name.

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    2 If only I had in the waste land a night's resting-place for travellers, so that I might go away, far from my people! for they are all untrue, a band of false men.

    3 Their tongues are bent like a bow to send out false words: they have become strong in the land, but not for good faith: they go on from evil to evil, and they have no knowledge of me, says the Lord.

    4 Let everyone keep watch on his neighbour, and put no faith in any brother: for every brother will certainly be tricking his brother, and every neighbour will go about saying evil.

    5 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.

  • Jer 5:11-12
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    11 For the people of Israel and the people of Judah have been very false to me, says the Lord.

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    12 For its men of wealth are cruel, and its people have said what is not true, and their tongue is false in their mouth.

  • Jer 9:7-9
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    7 So the Lord of armies has said, See, I will make them soft in the fire and put them to the test; this I will do because of their evil-doing.

    8 His tongue is an arrow causing death; the words of his mouth are deceit: he says words of peace to his neighbour, but in his heart he is waiting secretly for him.

    9 Am I not to send punishment for these things? says the Lord: will not my soul take payment from such a nation as this?

  • Jer 7:8-9
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    8 See, you put your faith in false words which are of no profit.

    9 Will you take the goods of others, put men to death, and be untrue to your wives, and take false oaths, and have perfumes burned to the Baal, and go after other gods which are strange to you;

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    11 Evil is there; cruel rule and deceit are ever in the streets.

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    5 Why do these people of Jerusalem go back, for ever turning away? they will not give up their deceit, they will not come back.

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    2 And though they say, By the living Lord; truly their oaths are false.

  • Ps 5:6
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    6 You will send destruction on those whose words are false; the cruel man and the man of deceit are hated by the Lord.

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    9 And the Lord said to me, There is an evil design at work among the men of Judah and the people of Jerusalem.

  • Zech 8:17
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    17 Let no one have any evil thought in his heart against his neighbour; and have no love for false oaths: for all these things are hated by me, says the Lord.

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    9 For no faith may be put in their words; their inner part is nothing but evil; their throat is like an open place for the dead; smooth are the words of their tongues.

  • Jer 6:13-14
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    13 For from the least of them even to the greatest, everyone is given up to getting money; from the prophet even to the priest, everyone is working deceit.

    14 And they have made little of the wounds of my people, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

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    4 Their works will not let them come back to their God, for a false spirit is in them and they have no knowledge of the Lord.

  • Jer 3:20
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    20 Truly, as a wife is false to her husband, so have you been false to me, O Israel, says the Lord.

  • Amos 3:10
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    10 For they have no knowledge of how to do what is right, says the Lord, who are storing up violent acts and destruction in their great houses.

  • Hos 7:13
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    13 May trouble be theirs! for they have gone far away from me; and destruction, for they have been sinning against me; I was ready to be their saviour, but they said false words against me.

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    10 Then said I, Ah, Lord God! your words were not true when you said to this people and to Jerusalem, You will have peace; when the sword has come even to the soul.

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    25 This is your fate, the part measured out to you by me, says the Lord, because you have put me out of your memory and put your faith in what is false.

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    9 The heart is a twisted thing, not to be searched out by man: who is able to have knowledge of it?

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    10 But for all this, her false sister Judah has not come back to me with all her heart, but with deceit, says the Lord.

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    9 For they are an uncontrolled people, false-hearted, who will not give ear to the teaching of the Lord:

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    6 They have seen visions without substance and made use of secret arts, who say, The Lord has said; and the Lord has not sent them: hoping that the word would have effect.

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    13 We have gone against the Lord, and been false to him, turning away from our God, our words have been uncontrolled, and in our hearts are thoughts of deceit.

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    9 Their respect for a man's position is a witness against them; and their sin is open to the view of all; like that of Sodom, it is not covered. A curse on their soul! for the measure of their sin is full.

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    3 For your hands are unclean with blood, and your fingers with sin; your lips have said false things, and your tongue gives out deceit.

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    9 Then he said to me, The sin of the children of Israel and Judah is very, very great, and the land is full of blood and the town full of evil ways: for they say, The Lord has gone away from the land, and the Lord does not see.

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    10 Up! and go; for this is not your rest: because it has been made unclean, the destruction ordered will come on you.

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