Jeremiah 9:5 Parallel Translations

Everyone cheats his neighbor. No one speaks the truth. My people train their tongues to speak lies. They wear themselves out doing wrong.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.

ASV:

And they will deceive every one his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they weary themselves to commit iniquity.

BBE:

Everyone will make sport of his neighbour with deceit, not saying what is true: their tongues have been trained to say false words; they are twisted, hating to come back.

DBY:

And they act deceitfully every one with his neighbour, and speak not the truth: they teach their tongue to speak falsehood, they weary themselves with perverse dealing.

ERV:

And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they weary themselves to commit iniquity.

JPS:

And they deceive every one his neighbour, and truth they speak not; they have taught their tongue to speak lies, they weary themselves to commit iniquity.

WBS:

And 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.

WEB:

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.

YLT:

And each at his friend they mock, And truth they do not speak, They taught their tongue to speak falsehood, To commit iniquity they have laboured.

Jeremiah 9:5 Cross References

XREF:

Jeremiah 12:13 "They have sown wheat and have reaped thorns, They have strained themselves to no profit. But be ashamed of your harvest Because of the fierce anger of the LORD."

Jeremiah 51:58 Thus says the LORD of hosts, "The broad wall of Babylon will be completely razed And her high gates will be set on fire; So the peoples will toil for nothing, And the nations become exhausted only for fire."

Jeremiah 51:64 and say, 'Just so shall Babylon sink down and not rise again because of the calamity that I am going to bring upon her; and they will become exhausted.'" Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.

Micah 6:12 "For the rich men of the city are full of violence, Her residents speak lies, And their tongue is deceitful in their mouth. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

9:5 And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they {f} have taught their tongue to speak lies, [and] weary themselves to commit iniquity.
(f) They have so practised deceit, that they cannot forsake it.

WES:

9:5 Weary - They use industry, and contrivance in it, they spare no labour.

MHC:

9:1-11 Jeremiah wept much, yet wished he could weep more, that he might rouse the people to a due sense of the hand of God. But even the desert, without communion with God, through Christ Jesus, and the influences of the Holy Spirit, must be a place for temptation and evil; while, with these blessings, we may live in holiness in crowded cities. The people accustomed their tongues to lies. So false were they, that a brother could not be trusted. In trading and bargaining they said any thing for their own advantage, though they knew it to be false. But God marked their sin. Where no knowledge of God is, what good can be expected? He has many ways of turning a fruitful land into barrenness for the wickedness of those that dwell therein.

CONC:

FALSE Commit Committing Dealing Deceit Deceitfully Deceive Deceives Falsehood Friend Hating Iniquity Laboured Lie Lies Mock Neighbor Neighbour Perverse Repent Saying Sinning Speak Speaks Sport Taught Teach Themselves Tongue Tongues Trained Truth Twisted Weary

Act Commit Committing Dealing Deceit Deceive Deceives False. Falsehood Friend Hating Iniquity Lies Mock Neighbor Neighbour Perverse Repent Sinning Speak Speaks Taught Themselves Tongue Tongues Trained True. Truth Twisted Weary Words

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