Jeremiah 9:2-4

Expanded Bible

² ·I wish [Oh that] I had a place in the ·desert [wilderness]—
    a house where travelers spend the night—
so I could ·leave [abandon; forsake] my people.
    I could go away from them,
because they are all adulterers [^Cunfaithful to God; 2:20, 23–24; 3:1–5; Hos. 7:4];
    ·they are all turning against him [^La band of traitors].

³ “They ·use [^Lbend] their tongues like a bow [^Cshooting lies from their mouths like arrows; Ps. 64:3–4].
Lies, not truth,
    have grown strong in the land.
They go from one evil thing to another.
    They do not know ·who I am [^Lme],” says the Lord.
⁴ “·Watch out [Be on guard] for your ·friends [or neighbors],
    and don’t ·trust [have confidence in] your own ·relatives [^Lbrothers],
because every ·relative [^Lbrother] is a ·cheater [^LJacob, who supplants; Gen. 25:19—35:29],
    and every ·friend [or neighbor] ·tells lies about [^Lgoes around slandering] you.