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Jeremiah 9

Jer. 9:3 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And they bend
darak (Hebrew #1869)
to tread; by implication, to walk; also to string a bow (by treading on it in bending)
KJV usage: archer, bend, come, draw, go (over), guide, lead (forth), thresh, tread (down), walk.
Pronounce: daw-rak'
Origin: a primitive root
their tongues
lashown (Hebrew #3956)
also (in plural) feminine lshonah {lesh-o-naw'}; from 3960; the tongue (of man or animals), used literally (as the instrument of licking, eating, or speech), and figuratively (speech, an ingot, a fork of flame, a cove of water)
KJV usage: + babbler,bay, + evil speaker, language, talker, tongue, wedge.
Pronounce: law-shone'
Origin: or lashon {law-shone'}
b like their bow
qesheth (Hebrew #7198)
from 7185 in the original sense (of 6983) of bending: a bow, for shooting (hence, figuratively, strength) or the iris
KJV usage: X arch(-er), + arrow, bow((-man, -shot)).
Pronounce: keh'-sheth
for lies
sheqer (Hebrew #8267)
an untruth; by implication, a sham (often adverbial)
KJV usage: without a cause, deceit(-ful), false(-hood, -ly), feignedly, liar, + lie, lying, vain (thing), wrongfully.
Pronounce: sheh'-ker
Origin: from 8266
: but they are not valiant
gabar (Hebrew #1396)
to be strong; by implication, to prevail, act insolently
KJV usage: exceed, confirm, be great, be mighty, prevail, put to more (strength), strengthen, be stronger, be valiant.
Pronounce: gaw-bar'
Origin: a primitive root
c for the truth
'emuwnah (Hebrew #530)
literally firmness; figuratively security; morally fidelity
KJV usage: faith(-ful, -ly, -ness, (man)), set office, stability, steady, truly, truth, verily.
Pronounce: em-oo-naw');
Origin: feminine of 529
upon the earth
'erets (Hebrew #776)
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
KJV usage: X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X natins, way, + wilderness, world.
Pronounce: eh'-rets
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm
; for they proceed
yatsa' (Hebrew #3318)
to go (causatively, bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim.
KJV usage: X after, appear, X assuredly, bear out, X begotten, break out, bring forth (out, up), carry out, come (abroad, out, thereat, without), + be condemned, depart(-ing, -ure), draw forth, in the end, escape, exact, fail, fall (out), fetch forth (out), get away (forth, hence, out), (able to, cause to, let) go abroad (forth, on, out), going out, grow, have forth (out), issue out, lay (lie) out, lead out, pluck out, proceed, pull out, put away, be risen, X scarce, send with commandment, shoot forth, spread, spring out, stand out, X still, X surely, take forth (out), at any time, X to (and fro), utter.
Pronounce: yaw-tsaw'
Origin: a primitive root
d from evil
ra` (Hebrew #7451)
bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral)
KJV usage: adversity, affliction, bad, calamity, + displease(-ure), distress, evil((- favouredness), man, thing), + exceedingly, X great, grief(-vous), harm, heavy, hurt(-ful), ill (favoured), + mark, mischief(-vous), misery, naught(-ty), noisome, + not please, sad(-ly), sore, sorrow, trouble, vex, wicked(-ly, -ness, one), worse(-st), wretchedness, wrong. (Incl. feminine raaah; as adjective or noun.).
Pronounce: rah
Origin: from 7489
to evil
ra` (Hebrew #7451)
bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral)
KJV usage: adversity, affliction, bad, calamity, + displease(-ure), distress, evil((- favouredness), man, thing), + exceedingly, X great, grief(-vous), harm, heavy, hurt(-ful), ill (favoured), + mark, mischief(-vous), misery, naught(-ty), noisome, + not please, sad(-ly), sore, sorrow, trouble, vex, wicked(-ly, -ness, one), worse(-st), wretchedness, wrong. (Incl. feminine raaah; as adjective or noun.).
Pronounce: rah
Origin: from 7489
, and theye know
yada` (Hebrew #3045)
to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including observation, care, recognition; and causatively, instruction, designation, punishment, etc.) (as follow)
KJV usage: acknowledge, acquaintance(-ted with), advise, answer, appoint, assuredly, be aware, (un-)awares, can(-not), certainly, comprehend, consider, X could they, cunning, declare, be diligent, (can, cause to) discern, discover, endued with, familiar friend, famous, feel, can have, be (ig-)norant, instruct, kinsfolk, kinsman, (cause to let, make) know, (come to give, have, take) knowledge, have (knowledge), (be, make, make to be, make self) known, + be learned, + lie by man, mark, perceive, privy to, X prognosticator, regard, have respect, skilful, shew, can (man of) skill, be sure, of a surety, teach, (can) tell, understand, have (understanding), X will be, wist, wit, wot.
Pronounce: yaw-dah'
Origin: a primitive root
not me, saith
n'um (Hebrew #5002)
an oracle
KJV usage: (hath) said, saith.
Pronounce: neh-oom'
Origin: from 5001
the Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
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Isa. 59:3‑4• 3For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips are speaking lies, your tongue muttereth wickedness.
 4None sueth in righteousness, none pleadeth in truthfulness. They trust in vanity, and speak falsehood; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity. (Isa. 59:3‑4)
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Jude 3• 3Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of our common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered to the saints. (Jude 3)
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2 Tim. 3:13• 13But wicked men and impostors shall advance for the worse, deceiving and being deceived. (2 Tim. 3:13)
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Hos. 4:1‑3• 1Hear the word of Jehovah, ye children of Israel; for Jehovah hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
 2Swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, burst out, and blood toucheth on blood
 3Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away. (Hos. 4:1‑3)

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Cross References

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they bend.
Jer. 9:5,8• 5And they act deceitfully every one with his neighbour, and speak not the truth: they teach their tongue to speak falsehood, they weary themselves with perverse dealing.
 8Their tongue is a murderous arrow; it speaketh deceit. A man speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in his heart he layeth his ambush. (Jer. 9:5,8)
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Psa. 52:2‑4• 2Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs,{HR}As a sharp razor, working deceit.
 3Thou hast loved evil [rather] than good,{HR}Falsehood [rather] than speaking righteousness. Selah.
 4Thou hast loved all words of devouring,{HR}O tongue of deceit. (Psa. 52:2‑4)
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Psa. 64:3‑4• 3Who have sharpened like the sword their tongue,{HR}Have bent their arrow, a bitter word,
 4To shoot in the secret places at the perfect;{HR}Suddenly they shoot [at him] and fear not. (Psa. 64:3‑4)
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Psa. 120:2‑4• 2Jehovah, deliver my soul from a lip of lying,{HR}From a tongue of deceit.
 3What shall be given unto thee,{HR}What shall be added unto thee,{HR}O tongue of deceit?
 4A mighty one's arrows sharpened,{HR}With coals of broom. (Psa. 120:2‑4)
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Isa. 59:3‑5,13‑15• 3For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips are speaking lies, your tongue muttereth wickedness.
 4None sueth in righteousness, none pleadeth in truthfulness. They trust in vanity, and speak falsehood; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
 5They hatch serpents' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.
 13in transgressing and lying against Jehovah, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
 14And judgment is turned away backward, and righteousness standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and uprightness cannot enter.
 15And truth is lacking; and he [that] departeth from evil maketh himself a prey. And Jehovah saw, and it displeased him that there was no judgment. (Isa. 59:3‑5,13‑15)
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Mic. 7:3‑5• 3Both hands are for evil, to do it well. The prince asketh, and the judge is there for a reward; and the great man uttereth his soul's greed: and together they combine it.
 4The best of them is as a briar; the most upright, worse than a thorn-fence. The day of thy watchmen, thy visitation is come; now shall be their perplexity.
 5Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide; keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom. (Mic. 7:3‑5)
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Rom. 3:13• 13“An open grave [is] their throat; with their tongues they used deceit; venom of asps [is] under their lips; (Rom. 3:13)
valiant.
Matt. 10:31‑33• 31Fear not therefore; ye are better than many sparrows.
 32Every one therefore who shall confess me before men, I also will confess him before my Father who is in [the] heavens.
 33But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father who is in [the] heavens. (Matt. 10:31‑33)
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Mark 8:38• 38For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him shall the Son of man also be ashamed when he shall come in the glory of his Father with the holy angels. (Mark 8:38)
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Rom. 1:16• 16for I am not ashamed of the gospel: for it is God's power unto salvation to everyone that believeth, both to Jew first and to Greek. (Rom. 1:16)
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Phil. 1:28• 28and not frightened in anything by the adversaries, which is to them a showing forth of destruction, but to you of salvation, and this from God; (Phil. 1:28)
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Jude 3• 3Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of our common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered to the saints. (Jude 3)
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Rev. 12:11• 11And they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb, and because of the word of their testimony; and they loved not their life unto death. (Rev. 12:11)
for they.
Jer. 7:26• 26but they have not hearkened unto me, nor inclined their ear; and they have hardened their neck: they have done worse than their fathers. (Jer. 7:26)
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2 Tim. 3:13• 13But wicked men and impostors shall advance for the worse, deceiving and being deceived. (2 Tim. 3:13)
they know.
Jer. 4:22• 22For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have no intelligence; they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge. (Jer. 4:22)
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Jer. 22:16• 16He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? saith Jehovah. (Jer. 22:16)
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Jer. 31:34• 34And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know Jehovah: for they shall all know me from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith Jehovah: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more. (Jer. 31:34)
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Judg. 2:10• 10And also all that generation were gathered to their fathers; and there arose another generation after them, which knew not Jehovah, nor yet the works which he had done for Israel. (Judg. 2:10)
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1 Sam. 2:12• 12Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they knew not Jehovah. (1 Sam. 2:12)
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Hos. 4:1‑3• 1Hear the word of Jehovah, ye children of Israel; for Jehovah hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
 2Swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, burst out, and blood toucheth on blood
 3Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away. (Hos. 4:1‑3)
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John 8:54‑55• 54Jesus answered, If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing; it is my Father that glorifieth me, of whom ye say, He is our God,
 55and ye have not known him, but I know him; and if I should say, I know him not, I shall be like you a liar; but I know him, and keep his word. (John 8:54‑55)
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John 17:3• 3And this is the eternal life, that they know thee, the only true God, and him whom thou didst send, Jesus Christ. (John 17:3)
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Rom. 1:28• 28And even as they disapproved to have God in acknowledgment, God gave them up unto a reprobate mind to do improper things; (Rom. 1:28)
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2 Cor. 4:4‑6• 4in whom the god of this age blinded the minds of the faithless, that the illumination of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is [the] image of God, should not shine forth.
 5For not ourselves do we preach, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves your bondmen for Jesus' sake,
 6because it is the God that bade light shine out of darkness, who shone in our hearts for the illumination of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. (2 Cor. 4:4‑6)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And they bend their tongue, their bow of falsehood, and not for fidelity are they valiant in the land; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith Jehovah.

W. Kelly Translation

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And they bend their tongue, their bow of falsehood, and not for fidelity are they valiant in the land; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith Jehovah.

WK Verse Note

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(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)