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They will deceive everyone his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they weary themselves to commit iniquity.
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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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18th Century
Presbyterian
From their punishment the prophet now turns to their sins.
(Jeremiah 9:2) The prophet utters the wish that he might be spared hi…
19th Century
Anglican
Deceive. —The word is commonly translated, as in the margin, mock. (So in 1 Kings 18:27; [Reference Judges 16…
Baptist
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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16th Century
Protestant
Jeremiah continues with the same subject. He says that fidelity had so vanished among the Jews that everyone sought to deceive his neighbor. Theref…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
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…
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13th Century
Catholic
First, he speaks of his own compassion regarding …
