Everyone Will Deceive His Neighbor & Not Speak the Truth |
Jeremiah 9:1-26 The Book of Jeremiah [in Smaller Chunks] |
Oh, that my head were [full of] waters & [my] eyes a fountain of tears, [so] that I might weep day & night for [those killed] of the daughter of my people! Oh, that I had a lodging place [for wandering] men in the wilderness; [so] that I might leave my people & go from them! For they [are] all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men. |
[Jeremiah 23:13-14 And I have seen [foolishness] in the prophets of Samaria. They prophesied [about] Baal & caused My people, Israel, to [go astray.] I also have seen a horrible thing in the prophets of Jerusalem. |
They commit adultery & [follow] in lies. They also strengthen the hands of [those who do evil, so] that none return from his wickedness. They are all of them to Me, [like] Sodom & the [residents] of Gomorrah.] |
And they bend their tongues [like] their [archer's] bow, for lies: but they are not valiant [about] the truth upon the earth. For they [go] from evil to evil & [don't] know Me, says the Lord. [Isaiah 59:3-4 For your hands are defiled with [bloodshed] & your fingers with [sin.] |
Your lips have spoken lies & your tongue has [expressed what is wicked.] None call for justice, nor [do] any plead for truth. They trust in [what is] vanity & speak lies. They [devise plots of evil] & [brings about] [what is sinful.] |
Everyone [pay attention to] his neighbor & [don't] trust in any brother. For every brother will [totally undermine] & every neighbor will [follow with those who slander.] And everyone will deceive his neighbor & won't speak the truth. |
They have taught their tongue to speak lies & [tire] themselves [by committing] [what is sinful.] Your [residence] is in the midst of deceit. They refuse to know Me, through deceit, says the Lord. |
[Jeremiah 17:9-10 Above all things, the heart is deceitful & desperately wicked. Who can know it? I, the Lord, search the heart & I [test the heart strings,] even to give [to] every man, according to his ways & according to the fruit of his [actions.] |
Therefore, the Lord of Hosts says [this, Look,] I will melt them & I will [test] them. For [what] shall I do for the daughter of My people? Their tongue is [like] an arrow shot out. It speaks [what is] deceit. [Someone] speaks [peacefully] to his neighbor with his mouth, but in [his] heart, he lays [in] wait [to ambush.] |
[Psalm 12:2-3 [Those who] speak [what is] vanity, everyone with his neighbor: with flattering lips & they speak with a [2 faced] heart. The Lord shall cut off all flattering lips & the tongue that speaks [arrogant] things.] |
The Lord says, [Shouldn't] I [punish] them for these things? [Shouldn't] My soul be avenged on a nation such as this? For I will take up weeping & wailing [on] the mountains & [I will] [mourn] for the [dwellings] of the wilderness, because they are burned up, so that none can [cross] through them & neither can men hear the [sound] of the [livestock.] |
Both the [birds] of the heavens & the [animals have] fled & they are gone. And I will make Jerusalem [ruinous] heaps & dens for [jackals] & desolate, without [inhabitants.] Who is the wise man, [who] may understand this And who is he to whom the mouth of the Lord has spoken [so] that he may declare [why] the land perishes & is burned up like a wilderness, that [no one] passes through? |
[Isaiah 65:7 The Lord says, Your [sins] & the [sins] of your [forefathers] together, [who] have burned incense upon the mountains & blasphemed Me upon the hills. Therefore, I will measure into their [chest, according] to [their [previous deeds.] |
And the Lord says, Because they have [abandoned] My Law, [that] I [put] before them & haven't obeyed My voice & neither [followed in them.] But [they] have [followed] after the imagination of their own heart, & after Baalim, [a.k.a. Baal, that] their [forefathers] taught them. |
Therefore, the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel says [this; Look,] I will feed them, even this people with wormwood & give them [the bitter] water of gall to drink. I will also scatter them among the heathen, whom neither they, nor their [forefathers] have known. And I will send a sword after them, [until] I have consumed them. |
[Deuteronomy 28:64 And the Lord shall scatter you among all people, from the one end of the earth, even to the other. And there, you shall serve other gods, [that] neither you, nor your [forefathers] have known, even of wood & stone.] |
The Lord of Hosts says [this,] You consider & call for the women [in] mourning, [so] that they may come & send for [skillful] women, [so] that they may come. And let them [hurry] & [start] wailing for us, [so] that our tears [from] our eyes may run down & waters [from] our eyelids gush out. For a [sound] of wailing is heard out of Zion, How we are [plundered!] |
We are greatly [ashamed,] because we have [abandoned] the land, because [we] have [been] cast out [of] our dwellings. Yet, hear the Word of the Lord, O you women & let your ear receive the Word of His mouth & teach your daughters wailing & everyone [teach] his neighbor [grieving.] |
For [the signs of] death [have] come up into our windows & [has] entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from [the outside] & the young men from the streets. The Lord says [this, Say,] Even the [corpses] of men shall fall [like feces] upon the open field & [like] the handful after the [harvesters] & none shall gather them. |
The Lord says [this, Don't] let the wise man [boast] in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man [boast] in his [strength] & [don't] let the rich man [boast] in his riches. But let him, [who boasts, boast] in this, that he understands & knows Me, that I Am the Lord, [Who delivers:] loving kindness, [justice] & righteousness [on] the earth. For I delight in these things, says the Lord. |
[Watch,] the days come, says the Lord, that I will punish all [those who] are circumcised [along] with the uncircumcised. [Jeremiah 4:4 Circumcise yourselves to the Lord & take away the foreskins [covering] your heart, you men of Jerusalem: lest My fury [comes out] like fire & [burns, so] that [no one] can [put it out,] because of the evil of your [actions.] |
[From:] Egypt, Judah, Edom, the children [people] of Ammon & Moab & all [who] are in the [furthest] corners & [those who] dwell in the wilderness. For all these nations are uncircumcised & all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in [their hearts.] |
[Colossians 2:8-11 Beware, lest any man spoil you through philosophy & [what is] vain deceit, after the [traditions] of men & after the [world's principles] & not after Christ. For [all] the fullness of the Godhead dwells in Him. |
And you are complete in Him, [Who] is the Head of all Principality & power. In Whom you are also circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, [by] putting off the [sinful] body of flesh, by the circumcision of Christ.] |