5 Everyone deceives his neighborand does not speak the truth.They have taught their tongue to speak lies;they weary themselves in committing iniquity.
6 Your habitation is in the midst of deceit;through deceit they refuse to know Me,says the Lord.
7 Therefore thus says the Lord of Hosts: Now, I will refine them and assay them;for what else shall I dofor the daughter of My people?
8 Their tongue is a deadly arrow;it speaks deceit.One speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth,but in his heart he lies in wait.
9 Shall I not punish them for these things?says the Lord.Shall not My soul be avengedon such a nation as this?
10 For the mountains I will take up a weeping and wailing,and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation,because they are burned up so that no one can pass through them;nor can men hear the lowing of the cattle.Both the fowl of the heavens and the beast have fled;they are gone.
11 I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruinsand a den of jackals;and I will make the cities of Judah desolate,without an inhabitant.