From their punishment the prophet now turns to their sins.

(Jeremiah 9:2) The prophet utters the wish that he might be spared hi…

Deceive. —The word is commonly translated, as in the margin, mock. (So in 1 Kings 18:27; [Reference Judges 16…

What a sad state they were in! Their tongues spoke lies without any teaching; but they schooled their tongues until they were masters of the art of…

Jeremiah continues with the same subject. He says that fidelity had so vanished among the Jews that everyone sought to deceive his neighbor. Theref…

And they will deceive everyone his neighbour In conversation, with lying words; and in trade and commerce, by art and tri…

Jeremiah wept much, yet wished he could weep more, that he might rouse the people to a due sense of the hand of God. But even the desert, without c…

1. Here, he shows their obstinacy in sins that are directly against their neighbor.

First, he speaks of his own compa ion regarding t…