[a] Oh that I had in the desert
    a travelers' lodging place,
that I might leave my people
    and go away from them!
For they are all (A)adulterers,
    a company of (B)treacherous men.
(C)They bend their tongue like a bow;
    falsehood and not truth has grown strong[b] in the land;
for they proceed from evil to evil,
    (D)and they do not know me, declares the Lord.

(E)Let everyone beware of his neighbor,
    and put no trust in any brother,
for every (F)brother is a deceiver,
    and every neighbor (G)goes about as a slanderer.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 9:2 Ch 9:1 in Hebrew
  2. Jeremiah 9:3 Septuagint; Hebrew and not for truth they have grown strong

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