Verse 3
Jeremiah 9:3
World English Bible, British Edition
3
“They bend their tongue,
as their bow, for falsehood.
They have grown strong in the land,
but not for truth;
for they proceed from evil to evil,
and they don’t know me,” says the LORD.
Original Language Text
hebrew
אִ֤ישׁ מֵ/רֵעֵ֨/הוּ֙ הִשָּׁמֵ֔רוּ וְ/עַל כָּל אָ֖ח אַל תִּבְטָ֑חוּ כִּ֤י כָל אָח֙ עָק֣וֹב יַעְקֹ֔ב וְ/כָל רֵ֖עַ רָכִ֥יל יַהֲלֹֽךְ
English Translation
A man should guard against his friend, and on all a brother do not trust, for every brother is deceitful, and every friend goes about as a slanderer.
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Chapter 9 Context
1
Oh that my head were waters,
and my eyes a spring of tears,
that I might weep day and night
for the...
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2
Oh that I had in the wilderness
a lodging place of wayfaring men,
that I might leave my people
and g...
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3
“They bend their tongue,
as their bow, for falsehood.
They have grown strong in the land,
but not fo...
4
“Everyone beware of his neighbour,
and don’t trust in any brother;
for every brother will utterly su...
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5
Friends deceive each other,
and will not speak the truth.
They have taught their tongue to speak lie...
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6
Your habitation is in the middle of deceit.
Through deceit, they refuse to know me,” says the LORD.
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7
Therefore the LORD of Armies says,
“Behold, I will melt them and test them;
for how should I deal wi...
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8
Their tongue is a deadly arrow.
It speaks deceit.
One speaks peaceably to his neighbour with his mou...
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9
Shouldn’t I punish them for these things?” says the LORD.
“Shouldn’t my soul be avenged on a nation...
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10
I will weep and wail for the mountains,
and lament for the pastures of the wilderness,
because they...
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11
“I will make Jerusalem heaps,
a dwelling place of jackals.
I will make the cities of Judah a desolat...
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12
Who is wise enough to understand this? Who is he to whom the
mouth of the LORD has spoken, that he m...
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13
The LORD says, “Because they have forsaken my law which I set
before them, and have not obeyed my vo...
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14
but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart and after
the Baals, which their fathers t...
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15
Therefore the LORD of Armies, the God (Elohim) of Israel, says, “Behold, I will
feed them, even this...
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16
I will scatter them also amongst the nations, whom neither they nor
their fathers have known. I will...
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17
The LORD of Armies says,
“Consider, and call for the mourning women, that they may come.
Send for th...
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18
Let them make haste
and take up a wailing for us,
that our eyes may run down with tears
and our eyel...
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19
For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion,
‘How we are ruined!
We are greatly confounded
because w...
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20
Yet hear the LORD’s word, you women.
Let your ear receive the word of his mouth.
Teach your daughter...
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21
For death has come up into our windows.
It has entered into our palaces
to cut off the children from...
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22
Speak, “The LORD says,
“‘The dead bodies of men will fall as dung on the open field,
and as the hand...
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23
The LORD says,
“Don’t let the wise man glory in his wisdom.
Don’t let the mighty man glory in his mi...
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24
But let him who glories glory in this,
that he has understanding, and knows me,
that I am the LORD w...
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25
“Behold, the days come,” says the LORD, “that I will punish all
those who are circumcised only in th...
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26
Egypt, Judah, Edom, the children of Ammon, Moab, and all who have the
corners of their hair cut off,...
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