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Oh that I had[a] in the desert a place of overnight lodging for travelers,
    that I may leave my people and go from them,
for all of them are adulterers,
    a band of traitors.
And they bend their tongue like their bow,
    for falsehood and not truth is superior in the land,
for they go forth[b] from evil to evil,
    and they do not know me,” declares[c] Yahweh.

A Nation Characterized by Deceit

“Let everyone be on your guard against his neighbor,
    and you must not trust in any brother,
for everyone surely betrays,
    and every neighbor goes about with slander.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 9:2 Literally “Who he gives me”
  2. Jeremiah 9:3 Or “proceed”
  3. Jeremiah 9:3 Literally “a declaration of”