Jeremiah 9:2-6

English Standard Version

²^[a] Oh that I had in the desert
    a travelers' lodging place,
that I might leave my people
    and go away from them!
For they are all ^(A)adulterers,
    a company of ^(B)treacherous men.
³^(C)They bend their tongue like a bow;
    falsehood and not truth has grown strong^[b] in the land;
for they proceed from evil to evil,
    ^(D)and they do not know me, declares the Lord.

⁴^(E)Let everyone beware of his neighbor,
    and put no trust in any brother,
for every ^(F)brother is a deceiver,
    and every neighbor ^(G)goes about as a slanderer.
⁵Everyone deceives his neighbor,
    and no one speaks the truth;
they have taught their tongue to speak lies;
    they weary themselves committing iniquity.
⁶Heaping oppression upon oppression, and deceit upon deceit,
    ^(H)they refuse to know me, declares the Lord.