Jeremiah 9:6

KJV1611 – Modern English

Your habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, says the LORD.

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  • Prov 1:24 : 24 Because I have called and you refused, I have stretched out my hand, yet no one paid attention;
  • Prov 1:29 : 29 Because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the LORD;
  • Jer 13:10 : 10 This evil people, who refuse to hear my words, who walk in the imagination of their heart, and follow other gods, to serve them, and to worship them, will be like this belt, which is good for nothing.
  • Job 21:14-15 : 14 Therefore they say to God, 'Depart from us, for we do not desire the knowledge of Your ways.' 15 Who is the Almighty that we should serve Him? And what profit do we have if we pray to Him?
  • John 3:19-20 : 19 This is the condemnation, that light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 Everyone who does evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed.
  • Rom 1:28 : 28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting;
  • 1 Cor 15:34 : 34 Awake to righteousness and do not sin; for some do not have the knowledge of God. I speak this to your shame.
  • Ps 120:2-6 : 2 Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips and from a deceitful tongue. 3 What shall be given to you? Or what shall be done to you, you false tongue? 4 Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper. 5 Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar! 6 My soul has long dwelt with him who hates peace.
  • Jer 18:18 : 18 Then said they, Come, and let us devise plans against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us attack him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.
  • Jer 20:10 : 10 For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, they say, and we will report it. All my familiar friends watched for my faltering, saying, Perhaps he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.
  • Hos 4:6 : 6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you from being a priest to me; seeing you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.
  • Jer 5:27 : 27 As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they have become great, and grown rich.
  • Jer 8:5 : 5 Why then has this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? They hold fast to deceit, they refuse to return.
  • Jer 11:19 : 19 But I was like a gentle lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I did not know that they had devised plots against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be remembered no more.

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  • Jer 9:2-5
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    2Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place for travelers; that I might leave my people and go from them! for they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

    3And 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.

    4Take heed every one of his neighbor, and do not trust in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will walk with slanders.

    5And 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.

  • Jer 5:11-12
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    11For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, says the LORD.

    12They have denied the LORD, and said, It is not he; neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine:

  • Mic 6:12
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    12For the rich men there are full of violence, the inhabitants have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

  • Jer 9:7-9
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    7Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and test them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people?

    8Their 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.

    9Shall I not visit them for these things? says the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

  • Jer 7:8-9
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    8Behold, you trust in deceptive words that cannot profit.

    9Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods whom you do not know;

  • Ps 55:11
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    11Wickedness is in the midst of it; deceit and guile do not depart from its streets.

  • Ps 101:7
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    7He who works deceit shall not dwell within my house: he who tells lies shall not remain in my presence.

  • Jer 8:5
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    5Why then has this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? They hold fast to deceit, they refuse to return.

  • Jer 5:2
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    2And though they say, The LORD lives; surely they swear falsely.

  • Ps 5:6
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    6You shall destroy those who speak falsehood; the LORD will abhor the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.

  • Jer 11:9
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    9And the LORD said to me, A conspiracy is found among the men of Judah and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

  • Zech 8:17
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    17And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbor; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, says the LORD.

  • Ps 5:9
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    9For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is pure wickedness; their throat is an open grave; they flatter with their tongue.

  • Jer 6:13-14
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    13For from the least of them even to the greatest of them, everyone is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even to the priest, everyone deals falsely.

    14They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

  • Hos 5:4
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    4They will not direct their deeds to turn to their God: for the spirit of prostitution is in the midst of them, and they have not known the LORD.

  • Jer 3:20
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    20Surely, as a wife treacherously departs from her husband, so have you dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, says the LORD.

  • Amos 3:10
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    10For they know not to do right, says the LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.

  • Hos 7:13
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    13Woe to them! for they have fled from me: destruction to them! because they have transgressed against me: though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me.

  • Jer 9:13
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    13And the LORD says, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, nor walked in it;

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    10Then I said: Ah, Lord GOD! surely you have greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, You shall have peace; whereas the sword reaches to the soul.

  • Jer 13:25
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    25This is your lot, the portion of your measures from me, says the LORD; because you have forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.

  • Jer 17:9
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    9The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

  • Jer 3:10
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    10And yet for all this, her treacherous sister Judah has not turned to me with her whole heart, but in pretension, says the LORD.

  • Isa 30:9
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    9That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children who will not hear the law of the LORD:

  • Ezek 13:6
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    6They have seen falsehood and lying divination, saying, 'The LORD says'; but the LORD has not sent them. And they have made others to hope that they would confirm the word.

  • Hos 11:12
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    12Ephraim surrounds me with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit, but Judah still walks with God, and is faithful with the saints.

  • Isa 59:13
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    13In transgressing and lying against the Lord, and departing from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

  • Isa 3:9
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    9The look on their faces testifies against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they do not hide it. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.

  • Isa 59:3-4
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    3For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue has muttered perverseness.

    4No one calls for justice, nor does anyone plead for truth: they trust in vanity and speak lies; they conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity.

  • Jer 29:9
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    9For they prophesy falsely to you in my name: I have not sent them, says the LORD.

  • Jer 14:10
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    10Thus says the LORD to this people, 'Thus they have loved to wander, they have not restrained their feet; therefore the LORD does not accept them; He will now remember their iniquity and punish their sins.'

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    4Do not trust in deceptive words, saying, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, are these.

  • Jer 2:29
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    29Why will you plead with me? you all have transgressed against me, says the LORD.

  • Ezek 9:9
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    9Then he said to me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness: for they say, The LORD has forsaken the earth, and the LORD does not see.

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    10Arise and depart, for this is not your rest; because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a severe destruction.

  • Jer 2:5
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    5Thus says the LORD, What wrong have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have followed idols, and have become idolaters?

  • Jer 6:21
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    21Therefore thus says the LORD, Behold, I will lay stumbling blocks before this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall fall upon them; the neighbor and his friend shall perish.

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    9In you are men that carry tales to shed blood: and in you they eat on the mountains: in the midst of you they commit lewdness.

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    18Your way and your deeds have procured these things for you; this is your wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reaches to your heart.

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    15Because you have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we in agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come to us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hidden ourselves: