Jeremiah 9:2

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Jeremiah 9:1–4 · Berean Standard Bible

1 Oh, that my head were a spring of water, and my eyes a fountain of tears! I would weep day and night over the slain daughter of my people.

2 If only I had a traveler’s lodge in the wilderness, I would abandon my people and depart from them, for they are all adulterers, a crowd of faithless people.

3 “They bend their tongues like bows; lies prevail over truth in the land. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not take Me into account,” declares the LORD.

4 “Let everyone guard against his neighbor; do not trust any brother, for every brother deals craftily, and every friend spreads slander.

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Psalms 55:6

I said, “Oh, that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and find rest.

Psalms 55:7

How far away I would flee! In the wilderness I would remain. Selah

Psalms 55:8

I would hurry to my shelter, far from this raging tempest.”

Psalms 120:5

Woe to me that I dwell in Meshech, that I live among the tents of Kedar!

Psalms 120:6

Too long have I dwelt among those who hate peace.

Psalms 120:7

I am in favor of peace; but when I speak, they want war.

Micah 7:1

Woe is me! For I am like one gathering summer fruit at the gleaning of the vineyard; there is no cluster to eat, no early fig that I crave.

Micah 7:2

The godly man has perished from the earth; there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; they hunt one another with a net.

Micah 7:3

Both hands are skilled at evil; the prince and the judge demand a bribe. When the powerful utters his evil desire, they all conspire together.

Micah 7:4

The best of them is like a brier; the most upright is sharper than a hedge of thorns. The day for your watchmen has come, the day of your visitation. Now is the time of their confusion.

Micah 7:5

Do not rely on a friend; do not trust in a companion. Seal the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your arms.

Micah 7:6

For a son dishonors his father, a daughter rises against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. A man’s enemies are the members of his own household.

Micah 7:7

But as for me, I will look to the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.

Jeremiah 5:7

“Why should I forgive you? Your children have forsaken Me and sworn by gods that are not gods. I satisfied their needs, yet they committed adultery and assembled at the houses of prostitutes.

Jeremiah 5:8

They are well-fed, lusty stallions, each neighing after his neighbor’s wife.

Jeremiah 23:10

For the land is full of adulterers— because of the curse, the land mourns and the pastures of the wilderness have dried up— their course is evil and their power is misused.

Ezekiel 22:10

In you they have uncovered the nakedness of their fathers; in you they violate women during their menstrual impurity.

Ezekiel 22:11

One man commits an abomination with his neighbor’s wife; another wickedly defiles his daughter-in-law; and yet another violates his sister, his own father’s daughter.

Hosea 4:2

Cursing and lying, murder and stealing, and adultery are rampant; one act of bloodshed follows another.

Hosea 7:4

They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by a baker who needs not stoke the fire from the kneading to the rising of the dough.

James 4:4

You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever chooses to be a friend of the world renders himself an enemy of God.

Jeremiah 12:1

Righteous are You, O LORD, when I plead before You. Yet about Your judgments I wish to contend with You: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all the faithless live at ease?

Jeremiah 12:6

Even your brothers— your own father’s household— even they have betrayed you; even they have cried aloud against you. Do not trust them, though they speak well of you.

Hosea 5:7

They have been unfaithful to the LORD; for they have borne illegitimate children. Now the New Moon will devour them along with their land.

Hosea 6:7

But they, like Adam, have transgressed the covenant; there they were unfaithful to Me.

Zephaniah 3:4

Her prophets are reckless, faithless men. Her priests profane the sanctuary; they do violence to the law.

Malachi 2:11

Judah has broken faith; an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the LORD’s beloved sanctuary by marrying the daughter of a foreign god.