Jeremiah 9:2-4
1599 Geneva Bible
2 Oh, that I had in the wilderness a [a]cottage of wayfaring men, that I might leave my people, and go from them: for they be all [b]adulterers, and an assembly of rebels.
3 And they bend their tongues like their bows for [c]lies: but they have no courage for the truth upon the earth, for they proceed from evil to worse, and they have not known me, saith the Lord.
4 Let everyone take heed of his neighbor, and trust you not in any [d]brother: for every brother will use deceit, and every friend will deal deceitfully,
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- Jeremiah 9:2 He showeth that this were more quietness and greater safety for him to dwell among the wild beasts than among this wicked people, save that God hath enjoined him this charge.
- Jeremiah 9:2 Utterly turned from God.
- Jeremiah 9:3 To belie and slander their neighbors.
- Jeremiah 9:4 Meaning, that all were corrupt, and none could find an honest man.
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