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Jeremiah 9:7 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" Therefore the LORD of Armies says, “Behold, I will melt them and test them; for how should I deal with the daughter of my people? "

Jeremiah 9:7

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5 Friends deceive each other, and will not speak the truth. They have taught their tongue to speak lies. They weary themselves committing iniquity.

6 Your habitation is in the middle of deceit. Through deceit, they refuse to know me,” says the LORD.

7 Therefore the LORD of Armies says, “Behold, I will melt them and test them; for how should I deal with the daughter of my people?

8 Their tongue is a deadly arrow. It speaks deceit. One speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart, he waits to ambush him.

9 Shouldn’t I punish them for these things?” says the LORD. “Shouldn’t my soul be avenged on a nation such as this?

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Jeremiah 9:1

"Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a spring of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!"

Jeremiah 9:2

"Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men, that I might leave my people and go from them! For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men."

Jeremiah 9:3

"“They bend their tongue, as their bow, for falsehood. They have grown strong in the land, but not for truth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don’t know me,” says the LORD."

Jeremiah 9:4

"“Everyone beware of his neighbor, and don’t trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go around like a slanderer."

Jeremiah 9:5

"Friends deceive each other, and will not speak the truth. They have taught their tongue to speak lies. They weary themselves committing iniquity."

Jeremiah 9:6

"Your habitation is in the middle of deceit. Through deceit, they refuse to know me,” says the LORD."

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