Jer 9:2-6 | ESV | STEP | 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 adulterers , a company of treacherous men .

‏ Jeremiah 9:2-6

2 ^{▼▼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 ^badulterers,
a company of ^ctreacherous men.
3 ^dThey 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,
^fand they do not know me, declares the Lord.
4 ^gLet everyone beware of his neighbor,
and put no trust in any brother,
for every ^hbrother is a deceiver,
and every neighbor ⁱgoes 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,
^jthey refuse to know me, declares the Lord.