[a](A)Oh that I had in the desert
A wayfarers’ lodging place;
That I might leave my people
And go from them!
For all of them are (B)adulterers,
An assembly of (C)treacherous men.
“They (D)bend their tongue like their bow;
Lies and not truth prevail in the land;
For they (E)proceed from evil to evil,
And they (F)do not know Me,” declares the Lord.
“Let everyone (G)be on guard against his neighbor,
And (H)do not trust any brother;
Because every (I)brother deals [b]craftily,
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 I.e. like Jacob (a play on words)