Like a cage full of birds, their houses are full of deceit; therefore they have become great and rich;

Why then has this people turned away in perpetual backsliding? They hold fast to deceit; they refuse to return.

Heaping oppression upon oppression, and deceit upon deceit, they refuse to know me, declares the Lord.

Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks deceitfully; with his mouth each speaks peace to his neighbor, but in his heart he plans an ambush for him.

And the Lord said to me: “The prophets are prophesying lies in my name. I did not send them, nor did I command them or speak to them. They are prophesying to you a lying vision, worthless divination, and the deceit of their own minds.

Why is my pain unceasing, my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? Will you be to me like a deceitful brook, like waters that fail?

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?

How long shall there be lies in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies, and who prophesy the deceit of their own heart,