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[a](A)Oh that I had in the desert
A travelers’ lodging place,
That I might leave my people
And go from them!
For all of them are (B)adulterers,
A solemn assembly of (C)treacherous men.
“They (D)bend their tongue like their bow;
Lies and unfaithfulness prevail in the land,
For they (E)go onward from evil to evil,
And they (F)do not know Me,” declares Yahweh.
“Let everyone (G)beware of his neighbor,
And (H)do not trust any brother,
Because every (I)brother [b]surely supplants,
And every neighbor (J)goes about as a slanderer.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 9:2 Ch 9:1 in Heb
  2. Jeremiah 9:4 Heb sounds like Jacob (a play on words)