Jeremiah 9:5

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.

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  • Job 15:5 : 5 For your iniquity teaches your mouth, And you choose the language of the crafty.
  • Mic 6:12 : 12 Her rich men are full of violence, Her inhabitants speak lies, And their tongue is deceitful in their speech.
  • Hab 2:13 : 13 Behold, isn't it of Yahweh of Hosts that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?
  • Eph 4:25 : 25 Therefore, putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members one of another.
  • 1 Tim 4:2 : 2 through the hypocrisy of men who speak lies, branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron;
  • Gen 19:11 : 11 They struck the men who were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they wearied themselves to find the door.
  • Job 11:3 : 3 Should your boastings make men hold their peace? When you mock, shall no man make you ashamed?
  • Ps 7:14 : 14 Behold, he travails with iniquity; Yes, he has conceived mischief, And brought forth falsehood.
  • Ps 50:19 : 19 "You give your mouth to evil. You harnesses your tongue for deceit.
  • Ps 64:3 : 3 Who sharpen their tongue like a sword, And aim their arrows, deadly words,
  • Ps 140:3 : 3 They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. Viper's poison is under their lips. Selah.
  • Prov 4:16 : 16 For they don't sleep, unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.
  • Isa 5:18 : 18 Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, And wickedness as with cart rope;
  • Isa 41:6-7 : 6 They help everyone his neighbor; and [every one] says to his brother, Be of good courage. 7 So the carpenter encourages the goldsmith, [and] he who smoothes with the hammer him who strikes the anvil, saying of the soldering, It is good; and he fastens it with nails, that is should not be moved.
  • Isa 44:12-14 : 12 The smith [makes] an axe, and works in the coals, and fashions it with hammers, and works it with his strong arm: yes, he is hungry, and his strength fails; he drinks no water, and is faint. 13 The carpenter stretches out a line; he marks it out with a pencil; he shapes it with planes, and he marks it out with the compasses, and shapes it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man, to dwell in a house. 14 He cuts down cedars for himself, and takes the cypress and the oak, and strengthens for himself one among the trees of the forest: he plants a fir tree, and the rain nourishes it.
  • Isa 57:10 : 10 You were wearied with the length of your way; yet you didn't say, It is in vain: you found a reviving of your strength; therefore you weren't faint.
  • Isa 59:13-15 : 13 transgressing and denying Yahweh, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood. 14 Justice is turned away backward, and righteousness stands afar off; for truth is fallen in the street, and uprightness can't enter. 15 Yes, truth is lacking; and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. Yahweh saw it, and it displeased him who there was no justice.
  • Jer 9:3 : 3 They bend their tongue, [as it were] their bow, for falsehood; and they are grown strong in the land, but not for truth: for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don't know me, says Yahweh.
  • Jer 9:8 : 8 Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks deceit: one speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart he lays wait for him.
  • Ezek 24:12 : 12 She has wearied [herself] with toil; yet her great rust doesn't go forth out of her; her rust doesn't [go forth] by fire.
  • Mic 6:3 : 3 My people, what have I done to you? How have I burdened you? Answer me!

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    3They bend their tongue, [as it were] their bow, for falsehood; and they are grown strong in the land, but not for truth: for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don't know me, says Yahweh.

    4Take you heed everyone of his neighbor, and don't you trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go about with slanders.

  • Jer 9:6
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    6Your habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, says Yahweh.

  • Jer 9:8
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    8Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks deceit: one speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart he lays wait for him.

  • Ps 12:2
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    2Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.

  • Ps 5:9
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    9For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.

  • Mic 6:12
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    12Her rich men are full of violence, Her inhabitants speak lies, And their tongue is deceitful in their speech.

  • Isa 59:3-4
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    3For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue mutters wickedness.

    4None sues in righteousness, and none pleads in truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.

  • Jer 6:13
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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.

  • Ps 10:7
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    7His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.

  • Ps 35:20
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    20For they don't speak peace, But they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.

  • Ps 50:19
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    19"You give your mouth to evil. You harnesses your tongue for deceit.

  • Rom 3:13
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    13"Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit." "The poison of vipers is under their lips;"

  • Job 15:35
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    35They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity. Their heart prepares deceit."

  • Isa 59:13
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    13transgressing and denying Yahweh, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

  • Ps 52:2
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    2Your tongue plots destruction, Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

  • Ps 5:6
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    6You will destroy those who speak lies. Yahweh abhors the blood-thirsty and deceitful man.

  • Jer 7:8
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    8Behold, you trust in lying words, that can't profit.

  • Prov 26:19
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    19Is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, "Am I not joking?"

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

  • Prov 12:20
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    20Deceit is in the heart of those who plot evil, But joy comes to the promoters of peace.

  • Hos 7:3
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    3They make the king glad with their wickedness, And the princes with their lies.

  • Ps 144:8
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    8Whose mouths speak deceit, Whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

  • 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 Yahweh.

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

  • Jer 5:2
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    2Though they say, As Yahweh lives; surely they swear falsely.

  • Ps 36:3
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    3The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and to do good.

  • Prov 12:22
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    22Lying lips are an abomination to Yahweh, But those who do the truth are his delight.

  • Ps 55:11
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    11Destructive forces are within her. Threats and lies don't depart from her streets.

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    9The look of their faces testify against them. They parade their sin like Sodom. They don't hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have brought disaster upon themselves.

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    10Therefore will I give their wives to others, and their fields to those who shall possess them: for everyone from the least even to the greatest is given to covetousness; from the prophet even to the priest every one deals falsely.

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    2For their hearts plot violence, And their lips talk about mischief.

  • Ps 59:12
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    12For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, Let them be caught in their pride, For the curses and lies which they utter.

  • Ps 73:9
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    9They have set their mouth in the heavens. Their tongue walks through the earth.

  • Isa 57:4
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    4Against whom do you sport yourselves? against whom make you a wide mouth, and put out the tongue? Aren't you children of disobedience, a seed of falsehood,

  • Ps 64:5
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    5They encourage themselves in evil plans. They talk about laying snares secretly. They say, "Who will see them?"

  • Ps 78:36
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    36But they flattered him with their mouth, And lied to him with their tongue.

  • Obad 1:7
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    7All the men of your alliance have brought you on your way, even to the border. The men who were at peace with you have deceived you, and prevailed against you. Friends who eat your bread lay a snare under you. There is no understanding in him.

  • Hos 4:2
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    2There is cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; They break boundaries, and bloodshed causes bloodshed.

  • Prov 17:4
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    4An evil-doer heeds wicked lips. A liar gives ear to a mischievous tongue.

  • Ps 101:7
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    7He who practices deceit won't dwell within my house. He who speaks falsehood won't be established before my eyes.

  • Ps 62:4
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    4They fully intend to throw him down from his lofty place. They delight in lies. They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.

  • Prov 6:19
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    19A false witness who utters lies, And he who sows discord among brothers.

  • Jer 5:26
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    26For among my people are found wicked men: they watch, as fowlers lie in wait; they set a trap, they catch men.

  • Job 15:5
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    5For your iniquity teaches your mouth, And you choose the language of the crafty.

  • Prov 29:5
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    5A man who flatters his neighbor, Spreads a net for his feet.

  • Ps 109:2
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    2For they have opened the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit against me. They have spoken to me with a lying tongue.

  • Jer 12:6
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    6For even your brothers, and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you; even they have cried aloud after you: don't believe them, though they speak beautiful words to you.

  • Prov 19:5
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    5A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who pours out lies shall not go free.