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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.
And everyone deceives his neighbor,
    and they do not speak the truth,
they have taught their tongues[a] to speak lies,[b]
    they are tired from going astray.
Your dwelling is in the midst of deceit,
    upon[c] deceit they refuse to know me,” declares[d] Yahweh.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 9:5 Hebrew “tongue”
  2. Jeremiah 9:5 Hebrew “lie”
  3. Jeremiah 9:6 Or “through”
  4. Jeremiah 9:6 Literally “a declaration of”