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Jeremiah 9:6

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

KJV

Habitatio tua in medio doli : in dolo renuerunt scire me, dicit Dominus.

Vulgate

τόκος ἐπὶ τόκῳ, καὶ δόλος ἐπὶ δόλῳ· οὐκ ἤθελον εἰδέναι με.

LXX

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

ASV

לָ/כֵ֗ן כֹּ֤ה אָמַר֙ יְהוָ֣ה צְבָא֔וֹת הִנְ/נִ֥י צוֹרְפָ֖/ם וּ/בְחַנְתִּ֑י/ם כִּֽי אֵ֣יךְ אֶעֱשֶׂ֔ה מִ/פְּנֵ֖י בַּת עַמִּֽ/י

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

14 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֵ֚יךְ
'yk
particle · 82×
בַּת
bt
noun · 585×
י
y
noun · 1849×
יְהוָ֖ה
yhvh
proper_noun · 6455×
יַּ֥עַשׂ
y'sh
verb · 2621×
יֹּ֣אמֶר
y'mr
verb · 5290×
כֵ֗ן
kn
adjective · 767×
כִּֽי
ky
pronoun · 4439×
כֹּֽה
kh
adverb · 574×
נִ֨י
ny
pronoun · 313×
נִי
ny
verb · 29×
פְנֵ֣י
pny
noun · 2111×
צְבָא֖וֹת
tsb'vt
noun · 480×
צֹרֵ֖ף
tsrp
verb · 34×

Historic Christian voices

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 15:34 — Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.
  • 2Thess 1:8 — In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
  • Hos 4:6 — My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will
  • Hos 6:7 — But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.
  • Jer 5:27 — As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.
  • Jer 8:5 — Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
  • Jer 8:5 — Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
  • Jer 11:19 — But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off
  • Jer 13:10 — This evil people, which refuse to hear my words, which walk in the imagination of their heart, and walk after other gods, to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle, which is goo
  • Jer 18:18 — Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him wit
  • Jer 20:10 — For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, say they, and we will report it. All my familiars watched for my halting, saying, Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail ag
  • Job 21:14 — Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.
  • John 3:19 — And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
  • John 7:28 — Then cried Jesus in the temple as he taught, saying, Ye both know me, and ye know whence I am: and I am not come of myself, but he that sent me is true, whom ye know not.
  • Prov 1:24 — Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
  • Prov 1:29 — For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
  • Ps 95:10 — Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:
  • Ps 120:2 — Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.
  • Rom 1:28 — And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
  • Rom 1:28 — And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;