Jeremiah 9:2-4

GOD’S WORD Translation

² I wish I had a place to stay in the desert.
I would abandon my people and go away from them.
They are all adulterers,
a mob of traitors.
³ They use their tongues like bows that shoot arrows.
Lies and dishonesty rule the land.^[a]
They go from one evil thing to another,
and they don’t know me,” declares the Lord.
⁴ “Beware of your neighbors.
Don’t trust your relatives.
Every relative cheats.
Every neighbor goes around slandering.