Jeremiah

⁵Everyone will deceive their neighbors,and will not speak the truth.They have taught their tongue to speak lies.They weary themselves commiting iniquity. ⁶Your habitation is in the middle of deceit.Through deceit, they refuse to know me,” says the Lord. ⁷Therefore the Lord of Hosts says,“Behold, I will melt them and test them;for how should I deal with the daughter of my people? ⁸Their tongue is a deadly arrow.It speaks deceit.One speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth,but in his heart, he waits to ambush him. ⁹Shouldn’t I punish them for these things?” says the Lord.“Shouldn’t my soul be avenged on a nation such as this? ¹⁰I will weep and wail for the mountains,and lament for the pastures of the wilderness,because they are burned up, so that no one passes through;Men can’t hear the voice of the livestock.Both the birds of the sky and the animals have fled.They are gone. ¹¹“I will make Jerusalem heaps,a dwelling place of jackals.I will make the cities of Judah a desolation,without inhabitant.”