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The Art of Lying
Commentators emphasize that the people's dishonesty was not accidental but a practiced skill. The verse says they "taught their tongue to speak lies." Scholars like Calvin and Spurgeon explain this means they had become masters of deceit, training themselves until lying was second nature, inverting the very purpose of the tongue.
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Jeremiah
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Albert Barnes
On Jeremiah 9:2–9
18th Century
Theologian
From their punishment the prophet now turns to their sins.
(Jeremiah 9:2) The prophet utters the wish that he might be spared hi…
Charles Ellicott
On Jeremiah 9:5
19th Century
Bishop
Deceive. —The word is commonly translated, as in the margin, mock. (So in 1 Kings 18:27; [Reference Judges 16…
Charles Spurgeon
On Jeremiah 9:5
19th Century
Preacher
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…
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John Calvin
On Jeremiah 9:5
16th Century
Theologian
Jeremiah continues with the same subject. He says that fidelity had so vanished among the Jews that everyone sought to deceive his neighbor. Theref…
John Gill
On Jeremiah 9:5
17th Century
Pastor
And they will deceive everyone his neighbour In conversation, with lying words; and in trade and commerce, by art and tri…
Matthew Henry
On Jeremiah 9:1–11
17th Century
Minister
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…