Jeremiah 9:5 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And they will deceiveb every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity. ”

Jeremiah 9:5 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

From their punishment the prophet now turns to their sins. Jeremiah 9:2 The prophet utters the wish that he might be spared his daily striving, and in some lone wilderness give way to his sor...
Jeremiah 9:5 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they (f) have taught their tongue to speak lies, [and] weary themselves to commit iniquity. (f) They have so practised de...
Jeremiah 9:5 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Faithlessness and its Retribution: the Dirge of Death. The humblest caravanserai would be preferable to life among these evil men, with their calumnies and the unfaithful use of power by those in a...
Jeremiah 9:5 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah goes on with the same subject. He says that fidelity had so disappeared among the Jews, that every one endeavored to deceive his neighbor. Hence it followed, that they were withhout an...
Jeremiah 9:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity. And weary themselves to commit ini...
Jeremiah 9:5 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity. Weary themselves to commit i...
Jeremiah 9:5 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1-22. The prophet continues his lament. The impending doom.
Jeremiah 9:5 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Deceive. — The word is commonly translated, as in the margin, mock. (So in 1 Kings 18:27 ; Judges 16:10 ; Judges 16:13 ; Judges 16:15 .) The context here shows, however, that the kind of mock...
Jeremiah 9:5 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Jeremiah 8:1-22 ; Jeremiah 9:1-26 ; Jeremiah 10:1-25 ; Jeremiah 26:1-24 In the four Chapter s which we are now to consider we have what is plainly a finished whole. The only possible exception...
Jeremiah 9:5 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

National Perversity Jeremiah 9:1-16 Jeremiah 9:1-6 Once the voice of joy and thanksgiving had been heard in Jerusalem, but now on every side there was bloodshed, and the patriot-prophet coul...
Jeremiah 9:5 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

In answer to his own question, Jeremiah sighed for some adequate means of expressing the anguish of his heart, and then for escape to some lonely place in the wilderness. All this was in the nature o...
Jeremiah 9:5 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

How blessed is it to behold faithful ministers, who enter into a deep concern for their people. What a beautiful portrait is here undesignedly drawn of Jeremiah. How endeared is that servant of the L...
Jeremiah 9:5 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And they will deceive everyone his neighbour ,.... In conversation, with lying words; and in trade and commerce, by art and tricking: and will not speak the truth ; with respect to facts they repo...
Jeremiah 9:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, [and] weary themselves to commit iniquity. Ver. 5. They have taught thei...
Jeremiah 9:5 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Take ye heed every one of his neighbour Or, of his friend , as רעהו rather signifies; of him who pretends friendship to him, or whom he has befriended. And trust ye not in a brother Against whom...
Jeremiah 9:5 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Prophet's Lamentation; Wickedness of Judah. B. C. 606. 1 Oh that my head were waters...
Jeremiah 9:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

They will deceive, Heb. mock , or deride ; they are scoffers. They have taught their tongue to speak lies ; they have so framed their tongues to it by custom and constant use, that lying is beco...
Jeremiah 9:5 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES. For Chronology and History, see chap. 7. 1. Geographical References. Jeremiah 9:26 . “ Egypt .” sit. on N.E. angle of Africa; a vast plain; in general features it m...
Jeremiah 9:5 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Jeremiah 9:1 . Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people! Jeremiah foresaw that the Chaldeans woul...
Jeremiah 9:5 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 9:2 . Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodgingplace of wayfaring men. In countries where the peasantry are very poor, travellers provide for themselves as they can. Even in Spain many of...
Jeremiah 9:5 - The Biblical Illustrator

And weary themselves to commit iniquity. The uneasiness of a sinful life Though these words were spoken of the Jews more than two thousand years ago, yet I shall endeavour to show that it may b...
Jeremiah 9:5 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Jeremiah 9:1 The Hebrew more correctly attaches this verse to Jeremiah 8:1-24 . Oh that my head were waters , etc.! A quaint conceit, it may be said. But "if we have been going...
Jeremiah 9:5 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Deceit of the People
Jeremiah 9:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Timothy 4:2 ; Ephesians 4:25 ; Ezekiel 24:12 ; Genesis 19:11 ; Habakkuk 2:13 ; Isaiah 41:6 ; Isaiah 41:7 ; Isaiah 44:12-14 ; Isaiah 5:18 ; Isaiah 57:10 ; Isaiah 59:13-15 ; Jeremiah 9:3...
Jeremiah 9:5 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Weary — They use industry, and contrivance in it, they spare no labour.

Jeremiah 9:5 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Jeremiah 9:5 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Jeremiah 9:5 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 9:5 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 9:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Jeremiah 9:5 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Jeremiah 9:5 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 9:5 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Jeremiah 9:5 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Jeremiah 9:5 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Jeremiah 9:5 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Jeremiah 9:5 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Jeremiah 9:5 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Jeremiah 9:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Jeremiah 9:5 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 9:5 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Jeremiah 9:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Jeremiah 9:5 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Jeremiah 9:5 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Jeremiah 9:5 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 9:5 - The Biblical Illustrator

Jeremiah 9:5 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Jeremiah 9:5 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Jeremiah 9:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Jeremiah 9:5 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes