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Jeremiah 9:6

You dwell in the midst of deception; in their deceit they refuse to know Me,” declares the LORD.

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ASV

Thy habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith Jehovah.

KJV

Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the Lord.

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Original language & word study

9 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
שִׁבְתְּךָ֖shiv.te.Khadwelling youH3427 →
בְּת֣וֹךְbe.Tokhin amongH8432 →
מִרְמָ֑הmir.MahdeceitH4820 →
בְּמִרְמָ֛הbe.mir.Mahon deceitH4820 →
מֵאֲנ֥וּme.'a.Nuthey have refusedH3985 →
דַֽעַת־da.'at-to knowH3045 →
אוֹתִ֖י'o.Ti<obj.> meH853 →
נְאֻם־ne.'um-[the] utterance ofH5002 →
יְהוָֽה׃ סYah.wehYahwehH3068 →

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Hosea 4:6My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you as My priests. Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.Jeremiah 13:10These evil people, who refuse to listen to My words, who follow the stubbornness of their own hearts, and who go after other gods to serve and worship them, they will be like this loincloth—of no use at all.John 7:28Then Jesus, still teaching in the temple courts, cried out, “You know Me, and you know where I am from. I have not come of My own accord, but He who sent Me is true. You do not know Him,Hosea 6:7But they, like Adam, have transgressed the covenant; there they were unfaithful to Me.Jeremiah 20:10For I have heard the whispering of many: “Terror is on every side! Report him; let us report him!” All my trusted friends watch for my fall: “Perhaps he will be deceived so that we may prevail against him and take our vengeance upon him.”Proverbs 1:24Because you refused my call, and no one took my outstretched hand,Romans 1:28Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.John 3:19–20And this is the verdict: The Light has come into the world, but men loved the darkness rather than the Light because their deeds were evil.Jeremiah 5:27Like cages full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit. Therefore they have become powerful and rich.Jeremiah 8:5Why then have these people turned away? Why does Jerusalem always turn away? They cling to deceit; they refuse to return.Job 21:14–15Yet they say to God: ‘Leave us alone! For we have no desire to know Your ways.Proverbs 1:29For they hated knowledge and chose not to fear the LORD.Jeremiah 11:19For I was like a gentle lamb led to slaughter; I did not know that they had plotted against me: “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit; let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be remembered no more.”Psalms 120:2–6Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips and a deceitful tongue.1 Corinthians 15:34Sober up as you ought, and stop sinning; for some of you are ignorant of God. I say this to your shame.Jeremiah 18:18Then some said, “Come, let us make plans against Jeremiah, for the law will never be lost to the priest, nor counsel to the wise, nor an oracle to the prophet. Come, let us denounce him and pay no heed to any of his words.”2 Thessalonians 1:8in blazing fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.Psalms 95:10For forty years I was angry with that generation, and I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they have not known My ways.”

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The Prophet Jeremiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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