Jeremiah 9:5
New Revised Standard Version
They all deceive their neighbors, and no one speaks the truth; they have taught their tongues to speak lies; they commit iniquity and are too weary to repent.

Contemporary English Version
They wear themselves out, always looking for a new way to cheat their friends.

New American Bible
Each one deceives the other, no one speaks the truth. They have accustomed their tongues to lying, they are perverse and cannot repent.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And a man shall mock his brother, and they will not speak the truth: for they have taught their tongue to speak lies: they have laboured to commit iniquity.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And a man shall mock his brother, and they will not speak the truth: for they have taught their tongue to speak lies: they have laboured to commit iniquity.

they will.

Jeremiah 9:5,8 And a man shall mock his brother, and they will not speak the truth: for they have taught their tongue to speak lies: they have laboured to commit iniquity. . . .

Isaiah 59:13-15 In sinning and lying against the Lord: and we have turned away so that we went not after our God, but spoke calumny and transgression: we have conceived, and uttered from the heart, words of falsehood. . . .

Micah 6:12 By which her rich men were filled with iniquity, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue was deceitful in their mouth.

Ephesians 4:25 Wherefore, putting away lying, speak ye the truth, every man with his neighbour. For we are members one of another.

deceive.

Job 11:3 Shall men hold their peace to thee only? and when thou hast mocked others, shall no man confute thee?

taught.

Jeremiah 9:3 And they have bent their tongue, as a bow, for lies, and not for truth: they have strengthened themselves upon the earth, for they have proceeded from evil to evil, and me they have not known, saith the Lord.

Job 15:5 For thy iniquity hath taught thy mouth, and thou imitatest the tongue of blasphemers.

Psalm 50:19 Thy mouth hath abounded with evil, and thy tongue framed deceits.

Psalm 64:3 For they have whetted their tongues like a sword; they have bent their bow a bitter thing,

Psalm 140:3 They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent: the venom of asps is under their lips.

1 Timothy 4:2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy and having their conscience seared,

weary.

Genesis 19:11 And them, that were without, they struck with blindness from the least to the greatest, so that they could not find the door.

Psalm 7:14 Behold he hath been in labour with injustice: he hath conceived sorrow, and brought forth iniquity.

Proverbs 4:16 They eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of iniquity.

Isaiah 5:18 Woe to you that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as the rope of a cart.

Isaiah 41:6,7 Every one shall help his neighbour, and shall say to his brother: Be of good courage. . . .

Genesis 19:11 And them, that were without, they struck with blindness from the least to the greatest, so that they could not find the door.

Psalm 7:14 Behold he hath been in labour with injustice: he hath conceived sorrow, and brought forth iniquity.

Proverbs 4:16 They eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of iniquity.

Isaiah 5:18 Woe to you that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as the rope of a cart.

Isaiah 41:6,7 Every one shall help his neighbour, and shall say to his brother: Be of good courage. . . .

Isaiah 44:12-14 The smith hath wrought with his file, with coals, and with hammers he hath formed it, and hath wrought with the strength of his arm: he shall hunger and faint, he shall drink no water, and shall be weary. . . .

Isaiah 57:10 Thou hast been wearied in the multitude of thy ways: yet thou saidst not: I will rest: thou has found life of thy hand, therefore thou hast not asked.

Ezekiel 24:12 Great pains have been taken, and the great rust thereof is not gone out, not even by fire.

Micah 6:3 O my people, what have I done to thee, or in what have I molested thee? answer thou me.

Habakkuk 2:13 Are not these things from the Lord of hosts? for the people shall labour in a great fire: and the nations in vain, and they shall faint.

Context
A Lament over Zion
4Let every man take heed of his neighbour, and let him not trust in any brother of his: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every friend will walk deceitfully. 5And a man shall mock his brother, and they will not speak the truth: for they have taught their tongue to speak lies: they have laboured to commit iniquity.6Thy habitation is in the midst of deceit: through deceit they have refused to know me, saith the Lord.…
Cross References
Psalm 52:3
Thou hast loved malice more than goodness: and iniquity rather than to speak righteousness.

Jeremiah 7:28
And thou shalt say to them: This is a nation which hath not hearkened to the voice of the Lord their God, nor received instruction: faith is lost, and is taken away out of their mouth.

Jeremiah 12:6
For even thy brethren, and the house of thy father, even they have fought against thee, and have cried after thee with full voice: believe them not when they speak good things to thee.

Jeremiah 12:13
They have sown wheat, and reaped thorns: they have received an inheritance, and it shall not profit them: you shall be ashamed of your fruits, because of the fierce wrath of the Lord.

Jeremiah 13:23
If the Ethiopian can change his skin, or the leopard his spots: you also may do well, when you have learned evil.

Jeremiah 51:58
Thus saith the Lord of hosts: That broad wall of Babylon shall be utterly broken down, and her high gates shall be burnt with fire, and the labours of the people shall come to nothing, and of the nations shall go to the fire, and shall perish.

Jeremiah 51:64
And thou shalt say: Thus shall Babylon sink, and she shall not rise up from the affliction that I will bring upon her, and she shall be utterly destroyed. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.

Ezekiel 24:12
Great pains have been taken, and the great rust thereof is not gone out, not even by fire.

Micah 6:12
By which her rich men were filled with iniquity, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue was deceitful in their mouth.

Malachi 2:10
Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why then doth every one of us despise his brother, violating the covenant of our fathers?

Jeremiah 9:4
Top of Page
Top of Page