Jeremiah 9:2-6

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▼ Ch 9:1 in Hebrew
 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 b adulterers,
a company of c treacherous men.
 3  d They bend their tongue like a bow;
falsehood and not truth has grown strong ▼
▼ Septuagint; Hebrew  and not for truth they have grown strong
 in the land;
for they proceed from evil to evil,
f and they do not know me, declares the  Lord.
 4  g Let everyone beware of his neighbor,
and put no trust in any brother,
for every h brother is a deceiver,
and every neighbor i goes about as a slanderer.
 5 Everyone deceives his neighbor,
and no one speaks the truth;
they have taught their tongue to speak lies;
they weary themselves committing iniquity.
 6 Heaping oppression upon oppression, and deceit upon deceit,
j they refuse to know me, declares the  Lord.
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