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Jer. 9:5 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And they will χdeceive every one his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.

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mock.

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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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Isa. 59:13‑15• ¹³in transgressing and lying against Jehovah, and departing away from 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 stumbleth in the street, and uprightness cannot enter.
¹⁵And truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey. And Jehovah saw it, and it was evil in his sight that there was no judgment. (Isa. 59:13‑15)

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Mic. 6:12• ¹²For her rich men are full of violence, and her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth. (Mic. 6:12)

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Eph. 4:25• ²⁵Wherefore, having put off falsehood, speak truth every one with his neighbour, because we are members one of another. (Eph. 4:25)

deceive.

or, mock.

Job 11:3• ³Should thy fictions make men hold their peace? and shouldest thou mock, and no one make thee ashamed? (Job 11:3)

taught.

Jer. 9:3• ³And 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. (Jer. 9:3)

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Job 15:5• ⁵For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou hast chosen the tongue of the crafty. (Job 15:5)

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Psa. 50:19• ¹⁹Thou lettest thy mouth loose to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit; (Psa. 50:19)

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Psa. 64:3• ³Who have sharpened their tongue like a sword, and have aimed their arrow, a bitter word; (Psa. 64:3)

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Psa. 140:3• ³They sharpen their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah. (Psa. 140:3)

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1 Tim. 4:2• ²speaking lies in hypocrisy, cauterised as to their own conscience, (1 Tim. 4:2)

weary.

Gen. 19:11• ¹¹And they smote the men that were at the entrance of the house with blindness, from the smallest to the greatest; and they wearied themselves to find the entrance. (Gen. 19:11)

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Psa. 7:14• ¹⁴Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, yea, he hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood: (Psa. 7:14)

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Prov. 4:16• ¹⁶For they sleep not except they have done mischief, and their sleep is taken away unless they have caused some to fall. (Prov. 4:16)

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Isa. 5:18• ¹⁸Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as with cart-ropes! (Isa. 5:18)

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Isa. 41:6‑7• ⁶They helped every one his neighbour, and each said to his brother, Take courage.
⁷And the artizan encouraged the founder, he that smootheth with the hammer him that smiteth on the anvil, saying of the soldering, It is good; and he fasteneth it with nails, that it be not moved. (Isa. 41:6‑7)

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Isa. 44:12‑14• ¹²The iron-smith hath a chisel, and he worketh in the coals, and he fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with his strong arm;--but he is hungry, and his strength faileth; he hath not drunk water, and he is faint.
¹³The worker in wood stretcheth out a line; he marketh it out with red chalk; he formeth it with sharp tools, and he marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of man: that it may remain in the house.
¹⁴When he heweth him down cedars, he taketh also a holm-oak and a terebinth--he chooseth for himself among the trees of the forest: he planteth a pine, and the rain maketh it grow. (Isa. 44:12‑14)

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Isa. 57:10• ¹⁰Thou wast wearied by the multitude of thy ways; but thou saidst not, It is of no avail. Thou didst find a quickening of thy strength; therefore thou wast not sick of it. (Isa. 57:10)

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Ezek. 24:12• ¹²She hath exhausted her labours, yet her great rust goeth not forth out of her: let her rust be in the fire. (Ezek. 24:12)

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Mic. 6:3• ³O my people, what have I done unto thee? and wherein have I wearied thee? testify against me. (Mic. 6:3)

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Hab. 2:13• ¹³Behold, is it not of Jehovah of hosts that the peoples labour for the fire, and the nations weary themselves in vain? (Hab. 2:13)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And they act deceitfully every one with his neighbourb, and speak not the truth: they teach their tongue to speak falsehood, they weary themselves with perverse dealing.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "friend," as ver. 4. see ch. 3.1.