The Lord Laments That He Has No Choice But to Judge Them The LORD says,“These people are like soldiers who have readied their bows. Their tongues are always ready to shoot out lies. They have become powerful in the land, but they have not done so by honest means. Indeed, they do one evil thing after another and do not pay attention to me.
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4Everyone must be on his guard around his friends. He must not even trust any of his relatives. For every one of them will find some way to cheat him. And all of his friends will tell lies about him.
5One 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.
6They do one act of violence after another, and one deceitful thing after another. They refuse to pay attention to me,” says the LORD.
8Their tongues are like deadly arrows. They are always telling lies. Friendly words for their neighbors come from their mouths. But their minds are thinking up ways to trap them.
9I will certainly punish them for doing such things!” says the LORD.“I will certainly bring retribution on such a nation as this!”
9For they do not speak the truth; their stomachs are like the place of destruction, their throats like an open grave, their tongues like a steep slope leading into it.
13We have rebelled and tried to deceive the LORD; we turned back from following our God. We stir up oppression and rebellion; we tell lies we concocted in our minds.
3For your hands are stained with blood and your fingers with sin; your lips speak lies, your tongue utters malicious words.
4No one is concerned about justice; no one sets forth his case truthfully. They depend on false words and tell lies; they conceive of oppression and give birth to sin.
8They mock and say evil things; they proudly threaten violence.
9They speak as if they rule in heaven, and lay claim to the earth.
12The city’s wealthy people readily resort to violence; her inhabitants tell lies, their tongues speak deceptive words.
3Political Intrigue and Conspiracy in the Palace The royal advisers delight the king with their evil schemes, the princes make him glad with their lies.
12They speak sinful words. So let them be trapped by their own pride and by the curses and lies they speak!
11For the nations of Israel and Judah have been very unfaithful to me,”says the LORD.
12“These people have denied what the LORD says. They have said,‘That is not so! No harm will come to us. We will not experience war and famine.
8Jerusalem certainly stumbles, Judah falls, for their words and their actions offend the LORD; they rebel against his royal authority.
9The look on their faces testifies to their guilt; like the people of Sodom they openly boast of their sin. Woe to them! For they bring disaster on themselves.
7Look, they hurl insults at me and openly threaten to kill me, for they say,“Who hears?”
3They sharpen their tongues like a sword; they aim their arrow, a slanderous charge,
16They turn to Baal; they are like an unreliable bow. Their leaders will fall by the sword because their prayers to Baal have made me angry. So people will disdain them in the land of Egypt.
20For they do not try to make peace with others, but plan ways to deceive those who live peacefully in the land.
8“‘But just look at you! You are putting your confidence in a false belief that will not deliver you.
2People lie to one another; they flatter and deceive.
13Israel Has Turned Away from the Lord Woe to them! For they have fled from me! Destruction to them! For they have rebelled against me! I want to deliver them, but they have lied to me.
4At whom are you laughing? At whom are you opening your mouth and sticking out your tongue? You are the children of rebels, the offspring of liars,
13“Their throats are open graves, they deceive with their tongues, the poison of asps is under their lips.”
2For look, the wicked prepare their bows, they put their arrows on the strings, to shoot in the darkness at the morally upright.
7His mouth is full of curses and deceptive, harmful words; his tongue injures and destroys.
2These people make promises in the name of the LORD. But the fact is, what they swear to is really a lie.”
2For they say cruel and deceptive things to me; they lie to me.
4They utter empty words, taking false oaths and making empty agreements. Therefore legal disputes sprout up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of a plowed field.
4Their wicked deeds do not allow them to return to their God; for a spirit of idolatry is in them, and they do not acknowledge the LORD.
3The words he speaks are sinful and deceitful; he does not care about doing what is wise and right.
3Their tongues wound like a serpent; a viper’s venom is behind their lips.(Selah)
9For these are rebellious people– they are lying children, children unwilling to obey the LORD’s law.
8They are unfamiliar with peace; their deeds are unjust. They use deceitful methods, and whoever deals with them is unfamiliar with peace.
17Do not plan evil in your hearts against one another. Do not favor a false oath– these are all things that I hate,’ says the LORD.
23This will happen to them because they have done what is shameful in Israel. They have committed adultery with their neighbors’ wives and have spoken lies while claiming my authority. They have spoken words that I did not command them to speak. I know what they have done. I have been a witness to it,’ says the LORD.”
6They see delusion and their omens are a lie. They say,“the LORD declares,” though the LORD has not sent them; yet they expect their word to be confirmed.
8who speak lies, and make false promises.
14Evil men draw their swords and prepare their bows, to bring down the oppressed and needy, and to slaughter those who are godly.
28So tell them:‘This is a nation that has not obeyed the LORD their God and has not accepted correction. Faithfulness is nowhere to be found in it. These people do not even profess it anymore.
28I reported,“All of them are the most stubborn of rebels! They are as hard as bronze or iron. They go about telling lies. They all deal corruptly.
4They spend all their time planning how to bring him down. They love to use deceit; they pronounce blessings with their mouths, but inwardly they utter curses.(Selah)
10“They do not know how to do what is right.”(The LORD is speaking.)“They store up the spoils of destructive violence in their fortresses.
2(9:1) I wish I had a lodging place in the wilderness where I could spend some time like a weary traveler. Then I would desert my people and walk away from them because they are all unfaithful to God, a congregation of people that has been disloyal to him.
22The LORD abhors a person who lies, but those who deal truthfully are his delight.
2There is only cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and adultery. They resort to violence and bloodshed.
13“That is because, from the least important to the most important of them, all of them are greedy for dishonest gain. Prophets and priests alike, all of them practice deceit.