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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 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. 59:13‑15)

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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 each with his neighbour, for we are members one of another. (Eph. 4:25)

deceive.

or, mock.

Job 11:3• ³Thy babbling puts men to silence:{HR}And thou mockest, and no one saith, Shame! (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 thine iniquity teacheth thy mouth,{HR}And thou choosest the tongue of the crafty; (Job 15:5)

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Psa. 50:19• ¹⁹Thy mouth thou hast sent out (let loose) to evil,{HR}And thy tongue frameth deceit. (Psa. 50:19)

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Psa. 64:3• ³Who have sharpened like the sword their tongue,{HR}Have bent their arrow, a bitter word, (Psa. 64:3)

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Psa. 140:3• ³They whet their tongue like a serpent:{HR}Adder's poison [is] under their lips, Selah. (Psa. 140:3)

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1 Tim. 4:2• ²by hypocrisy of legendmongers, branded in their own conscience, (1 Tim. 4:2)

weary.

Gen. 19:11• ¹¹And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great: so that they wearied themselves to find the door. (Gen. 19:11)

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Psa. 7:14• ¹⁴Behold he travaileth [with] iniquity,{HR}And 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;{HR}And their sleep is taken away, unless they cause [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 it were with a cart rope; that say, (Isa. 5:18)

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Isa. 41:6‑7• ⁶They helped every one his neighbour, and [each] said to his brother, Be of good courage.
⁷So the carpenter 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 smith [hath] tongs, and worketh in the coals, and fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with his strong arm; but he is hungry and his strength faileth; he drinketh no water, and is faint.
¹³The carpenter stretcheth out a line; he marketh it out with chalk; he fitteth it with adzes, and he marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of man, to remain in the house.
¹⁴When he heweth him down cedars, he also taketh a holm-oak and a terebinth, and he maketh one strong for himself among the trees of the forest; he planteth a mountain-ash, and the rain nourisheth [it]. (Isa. 44:12‑14)

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Isa. 57:10• ¹⁰Thou wast wearied with the length of thy way; thou saidst not, There is no hope. Thou didst find a quickening of thy strength; therefore thou wast not faint. (Isa. 57:10)

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Ezek. 24:12• ¹²With frauds it wearied itself; and the greatness of its scum goeth not off from it: into the fire its scum! (Ezek. 24:12)

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

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Hab. 2:13• ¹³Behold, is it not of the Jehovah of hosts that the people shall labour in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for very vanity? (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.

W. Kelly Translation

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And 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.

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.)