Jeremiah 9:5

KJV1611 – Modern English

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.

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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    You live in the midst of deceit, and because of deceit, they refuse to know me, declares the Lord.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard 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.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    And they will deceive{H2048} every one{H376} his neighbor,{H7453} and will not speak{H1696} the truth:{H571} they have taught{H3925} their tongue{H3956} to speak{H1696} lies;{H8267} they weary{H3811} themselves to commit iniquity.{H5753}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    And they will deceive{H2048}{(H8762)} every one{H376} his neighbour{H7453}, and will not speak{H1696}{(H8762)} the truth{H571}: they have taught{H3925}{(H8765)} their tongue{H3956} to speak{H1696}{(H8763)} lies{H8267}, and weary{H3811}{(H8738)} themselves to commit iniquity{H5753}{(H8687)}.

  • 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.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    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.

  • Bishops' 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.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    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.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    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.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    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.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    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.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    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 (1941)

    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.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    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.

  • NET Bible® (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.

Referenced Verses

  • Job 15:5 : 5 For your mouth declares your iniquity, and you choose the tongue of the crafty.
  • Mic 6:12 : 12 For the rich men there are full of violence, the inhabitants have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
  • Hab 2:13 : 13 Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts that the people shall labor in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for mere vanity?
  • Eph 4:25 : 25 Therefore, putting away lying, let each one of you speak truth with his neighbor, for we are members of one another.
  • 1 Tim 4:2 : 2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
  • Gen 19:11 : 11 And they struck the men at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they tired themselves trying to find the door.
  • Job 11:3 : 3 Should your lies silence men? And when you mock, shall no man make you ashamed?
  • Ps 7:14 : 14 Behold, he travails with iniquity, and has conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.
  • Ps 50:19 : 19 You give your mouth to evil, and your tongue frames deceit.
  • Ps 64:3 : 3 Who sharpen their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words.
  • Ps 140:3 : 3 They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.
  • Prov 4:16 : 16 For they do not sleep unless they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.
  • Isa 5:18 : 18 Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as if with a cart rope:
  • Isa 41:6-7 : 6 They helped everyone his neighbor; and everyone said to his brother, Be of good courage. 7 So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and he that smooths with the hammer him that struck the anvil, saying, It is ready for the soldering: and he fastened it with nails, that it should not be moved.
  • Isa 44:12-14 : 12 The smith with the tongs both works in the coals, and fashions it with hammers, and works it with the strength of his arms: yes, he is hungry, and his strength fails: he drinks no water, and is faint. 13 The carpenter stretches out his rule; he marks it out with a line; he fits it with planes, and he marks it out with the compass, and makes it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the house. 14 He cuts down cedars, and takes the cypress and the oak, which he strengthens for himself among the trees of the forest: he plants an ash, and the rain nourishes it.
  • Isa 57:10 : 10 You are wearied by the length of your way; yet you did not say, There is no hope: you have found the life of your hand; therefore you were not grieved.
  • Isa 59:13-15 : 13 In transgressing and lying against the Lord, and departing from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood. 14 And judgment is turned backward, and justice stands far off: for truth has fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter. 15 Yes, truth fails; and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey: and the Lord saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.
  • Jer 9:3 : 3 And they bend their tongues like a bow for lies; but they are not valiant for the truth on the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, says the LORD.
  • Jer 9:8 : 8 Their tongue is like an arrow shot out; it speaks deceit: one speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart he lies in wait.
  • Ezek 24:12 : 12 She has wearied herself with lies, and her great scum did not go out of her: her scum shall be in the fire.
  • Mic 6:3 : 3 O my people, what have I done to you? And how have I wearied you? Testify against Me.

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