Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Friend deceives friend, and no one speaks the truth. They have taught their tongues to lie; they weary themselves with sinning. New Living Translation They all fool and defraud each other; no one tells the truth. With practiced tongues they tell lies; they wear themselves out with all their sinning. English Standard Version Everyone deceives his neighbor, and no one speaks the truth; they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they weary themselves committing iniquity. Berean Standard Bible Each one betrays his friend; no one tells the truth. They have taught their tongues to lie; they wear themselves out committing iniquity. King James Bible 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. New King James Version Everyone will deceive his neighbor, And will not speak the truth; They have taught their tongue to speak lies; They weary themselves to commit iniquity. New American Standard Bible “Everyone deceives his neighbor And does not speak the truth. They have taught their tongue to speak lies; They weary themselves committing wrongdoing. NASB 1995 “Everyone deceives his neighbor And does not speak the truth, They have taught their tongue to speak lies; They weary themselves committing iniquity. NASB 1977 “And everyone deceives his neighbor, And does not speak the truth, They have taught their tongue to speak lies; They weary themselves committing iniquity. Legacy Standard Bible Everyone deceives his neighbor And does not speak the truth; They have taught their tongue to speak lies; They weary themselves committing iniquity. Amplified Bible “Everyone deceives and mocks his neighbor And does not speak the truth. They have taught their tongue to speak lies; They exhaust themselves with sin and cruelty. Christian Standard Bible Each one betrays his friend; no one tells the truth. They have taught their tongues to speak lies; they wear themselves out doing wrong. Holman Christian Standard Bible Each one betrays his friend; no one tells the truth. They have taught their tongues to speak lies; they wear themselves out doing wrong. American Standard Version 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. Aramaic Bible in Plain English And every man is lying with his fellow man and is not speaking truth. They have taught their tongue to speak falsehood, and they were disturbed and weary Brenton Septuagint Translation Every one will mock his friend; they will not speak truth: their tongue has learned to speak falsehoods; they have committed iniquity, they ceased not, so as to return. Contemporary English Version They wear themselves out, always looking for a new way to cheat their friends. 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. English Revised Version 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. GOD'S WORD® Translation Everyone cheats his neighbor. No one speaks the truth. My people train their tongues to speak lies. They wear themselves out doing wrong. International Standard Version People deceive their friends, and they don't tell the truth. They have taught their tongues to tell lies. They exhaust themselves practicing evil. JPS Tanakh 1917 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. Literal Standard Version And they each mock at his friend, | And they do not speak truth, | They taught their tongue to speak falsehood, | They have labored to commit iniquity. Majority Standard Bible Each one betrays his friend; no one tells the truth. They have taught their tongues to lie; they wear themselves out committing iniquity. 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. NET Bible One 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. 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. New Heart English Bible Everyone deceives his neighbor, and does not speak the truth. They have taught their tongue to speak lies; they do evil, they do not cease so as to return. Webster's Bible Translation 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. World English Bible Friends deceive each other, and will not speak the truth. They have taught their tongue to speak lies. They weary themselves committing iniquity. Young's Literal Translation 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. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context A Lament over Zion…4“Let everyone guard against his neighbor; do not trust any brother, for every brother deals craftily, and every friend spreads slander. 5Each one betrays his friend; no one tells the truth. They have taught their tongues to lie; they wear themselves out committing iniquity. 6You dwell in the midst of deception; in their deceit they refuse to know Me,” declares the LORD.… Cross References Psalm 52:3 You love evil more than good, falsehood more than speaking truth. Selah Jeremiah 7:28 Therefore you must say to them, 'This is the nation that would not listen to the voice of the LORD their God and would not receive correction. Truth has perished; it has disappeared from their lips. Jeremiah 12:6 Even your brothers--your own father's household--even they have betrayed you; even they have cried aloud against you. Do not trust them, though they speak well of you. Jeremiah 12:13 They have sown wheat but harvested thorns. They have exhausted themselves to no avail. Bear the shame of your harvest because of the fierce anger of the LORD." Jeremiah 13:23 Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Neither are you able to do good--you who are accustomed to doing evil. Jeremiah 51:58 This is what the LORD of Hosts says: "Babylon's thick walls will be leveled, and her high gates consumed by fire. So the labor of the people will be for nothing; the nations will exhaust themselves to fuel the flames." Jeremiah 51:64 Then you are to say, 'In the same way Babylon will sink and never rise again, because of the disaster I will bring upon her. And her people will grow weary.'" Here end the words of Jeremiah. Treasury of Scripture 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. they will. Jeremiah 9:5,8 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… Isaiah 59:13-15 In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood… Micah 6:12 For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth. deceive. Job 11:3 Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed? taught. Jeremiah 9:3 And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD. Job 15:5 For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty. Psalm 50:19 Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit. weary. Genesis 19:11 And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great: so that they wearied themselves to find the door. Psalm 7:14 Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood. Proverbs 4:16 For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall. Jump to Previous 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 WordsJump to Next 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 WordsJeremiah 9 1. Jeremiah laments the people for their manifold sins;9. and for their judgment. 12. Disobedience is the cause of their bitter calamity. 17. He exhorts to mourn for their destruction; 23. and to trust not in themselves, but in God. 25. He threatens both Jews and Gentiles. (5) Deceive.--The word is commonly translated, as in the margin, mock. (So in 1Kings 18:27; Judges 16:10; Judges 16:13; Judges 16:15.) The context here shows, however, that the kind of mockery is that which at once deludes and derides; and as the former meaning is predominant, the text of the English version had better stand as it is. To commit iniquity.--Literally, to go crookedly, or, in the strict sense of the word, to do wrong. Verse 5. - They have taught their tongue, etc.; again an intimation of the unnaturalness (in the higher sense) of vice (comp. on Jeremiah 2:33).Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Each oneוְאִ֤ישׁ (wə·’îš) Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 376: A man as an individual, a male person betrays יְהָתֵ֔לּוּ (yə·hā·ṯêl·lū) Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - third person masculine plural Strong's 2048: To deride, to cheat his friend; בְּרֵעֵ֙הוּ֙ (bə·rê·‘ê·hū) Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular Strong's 7453: Friend, companion, fellow no לֹ֣א (lō) Adverb - Negative particle Strong's 3808: Not, no one tells יְדַבֵּ֑רוּ (yə·ḏab·bê·rū) Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person masculine plural Strong's 1696: To arrange, to speak, to subdue the truth. וֶאֱמֶ֖ת (we·’ĕ·meṯ) Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular Strong's 571: Stability, certainty, truth, trustworthiness They have taught לִמְּד֧וּ (lim·mə·ḏū) Verb - Piel - Perfect - third person common plural Strong's 3925: To exercise in, learn their tongues לְשׁוֹנָ֛ם (lə·šō·w·nām) Noun - common singular construct | third person masculine plural Strong's 3956: The tongue to lie; דַּבֶּר־ (dab·ber-) Verb - Piel - Infinitive construct Strong's 1696: To arrange, to speak, to subdue they wear themselves out נִלְאֽוּ׃ (nil·’ū) Verb - Nifal - Perfect - third person common plural Strong's 3811: To tire, to be, disgusted committing iniquity. הַעֲוֵ֥ה (ha·‘ă·wêh) Verb - Hifil - Infinitive absolute Strong's 5753: To bend, twist Links Jeremiah 9:5 NIVJeremiah 9:5 NLT Jeremiah 9:5 ESV Jeremiah 9:5 NASB Jeremiah 9:5 KJV Jeremiah 9:5 BibleApps.com Jeremiah 9:5 Biblia Paralela Jeremiah 9:5 Chinese Bible Jeremiah 9:5 French Bible Jeremiah 9:5 Catholic Bible OT Prophets: Jeremiah 9:5 They will deceive everyone his neighbor (Jer.) |
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