Jeremiah 9:2-4

Easy-to-Read Version

² If only I had a place in the desert—
    a house where travelers spend the night—
so I could leave my people.
    I could go away from them,
because they are all unfaithful to God.
    They have all turned against him.

³ “They use their tongues like a bow;
    lies fly from their mouths like arrows.
Lies, not truth,
    have grown strong in this land.
They go from one sin to another.
    They don’t know me.”
    This is what the Lord said.

⁴ “Watch your neighbors!
    Don’t trust your own brothers,
because every brother is a cheat.
    Every neighbor talks behind your back.