Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version “Beware of your friends; do not trust anyone in your clan. For every one of them is a deceiver, and every friend a slanderer. New Living Translation “Beware of your neighbor! Don’t even trust your brother! For brother takes advantage of brother, and friend slanders friend. English Standard Version Let everyone beware of his neighbor, and put no trust in any brother, for every brother is a deceiver, and every neighbor goes about as a slanderer. Berean Standard Bible “Let everyone guard against his neighbor; do not trust any brother, for every brother deals craftily, and every friend spreads slander. King James Bible Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders. New King James Version “Everyone take heed to his neighbor, And do not trust any brother; For every brother will utterly supplant, And every neighbor will walk with slanderers. New American Standard Bible “Let everyone be on guard against his neighbor, And do not trust any brother; Because every brother utterly betrays, And every neighbor goes about as a slanderer. NASB 1995 “Let everyone be on guard against his neighbor, And do not trust any brother; Because every brother deals craftily, And every neighbor goes about as a slanderer. NASB 1977 “Let everyone be on guard against his neighbor, And do not trust any brother; Because every brother deals craftily, And every neighbor goes about as a slanderer. Legacy Standard Bible “Let everyone beware of his neighbor, And do not trust any brother, Because every brother surely supplants, And every neighbor goes about as a slanderer. Amplified Bible “Let everyone beware of his neighbor And do not trust any brother. For every brother is a supplanter [like Jacob, a deceiver, ready to grab his brother’s heel], And every neighbor goes around as a slanderer. Christian Standard Bible Everyone has to be on guard against his friend. Don’t trust any brother, for every brother will certainly deceive, and every friend spread slander. Holman Christian Standard Bible Everyone has to be on guard against his friend. Don’t trust any brother, for every brother will certainly deceive, and every friend spread slander. American Standard Version Take ye heed every one of his neighbor, and trust ye not in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go about with slanders. Contemporary English Version Jeremiah, all your friends and relatives tell lies about you, so don't trust them. English Revised Version Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will go about with slanders. GOD'S WORD® Translation "Beware of your neighbors. Don't trust your relatives. Every relative cheats. Every neighbor goes around slandering. Good News Translation Everyone must be on guard against their friends, and no one can trust their relatives; for all relatives are as deceitful as Jacob, and everyone slanders their friends. International Standard Version "Beware of your neighbors, and don't trust any of your relatives. For all of your relatives act deceitfully, and every friend goes around as a slanderer. Majority Standard Bible “Let everyone guard against his neighbor; do not trust any brother, for every brother deals craftily, and every friend spreads slander. NET Bible Everyone must be on his guard around his friends. He must not even trust any of his relatives. For every one of them will find some way to cheat him. And all of his friends will tell lies about him. New Heart English Bible "Everyone be on guard against his neighbor, and do not trust any brother; for every brother is a deceiver, and every neighbor will go about with slanders. Webster's Bible Translation Take ye heed every one of his neighbor, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will walk with slanders. World English Bible “Everyone beware of his neighbor, and don’t trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go around like a slanderer. Literal Translations Literal Standard Version“You each beware of his friend, "" And do not trust any brother, "" For every brother utterly supplants, "" For every friend slanderously walks, Young's Literal Translation Each of his friend -- beware ye, And on any brother, do not trust, For every brother doth utterly supplant, For every friend slanderously doth walk, Smith's Literal Translation Watch ye each from his neighbor, and to any brother ye shall not trust, for every brother deceiving, will deceive, and every neighbor will go tale-bearing. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleLet every man take heed of his neighbor, and let his not trust in any brother of his: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every friend will walk deceitfully. Catholic Public Domain Version Let each one guard himself against his neighbor, and let him have no trust in any brother of his. For every brother will utterly overthrow, and every friend will advance deceitfully. New American Bible Be on your guard, everyone against his neighbor; put no trust in any brother. Every brother imitates Jacob, the supplanter, every neighbor is guilty of slander. New Revised Standard Version Beware of your neighbors, and put no trust in any of your kin; for all your kin are supplanters, and every neighbor goes around like a slanderer. Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleTake heed every one of his neighbor and do not trust in any brother; for every brother henceforth will defraud and every neighbor will walk deceitfully. Peshitta Holy Bible Translated Let a man beware of his neighbor, and you shall not trust upon any brother, because every brother shall defraud from all, and every friend walks by treachery OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, And trust ye not in any brother; For every brother acteth subtly, And every neighbour goeth about with slanders. Brenton Septuagint Translation Beware ye each of his neighbour, and trust ye not in your brethren: for every one will surely supplant, and every friend will walk craftily. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context A Lament over Zion…3“They bend their tongues like bows; lies prevail over truth in the land. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not take Me into account,” declares the LORD. 4“Let everyone guard against his neighbor; do not trust any brother, for every brother deals craftily, and every friend spreads slander. 5Each one betrays his friend; no one tells the truth. They have taught their tongues to lie; they wear themselves out committing iniquity.… Cross References Micah 7:5-6 Do not rely on a friend; do not trust in a companion. Seal the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your arms. / For a son dishonors his father, a daughter rises against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. A man’s enemies are the members of his own household. Matthew 10:21 Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; children will rise against their parents and have them put to death. Luke 12:53 They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.” Psalm 41:9 Even my close friend whom I trusted, the one who shared my bread, has lifted up his heel against me. Psalm 55:12-14 For it is not an enemy who insults me; that I could endure. It is not a foe who rises against me; from him I could hide. / But it is you, a man like myself, my companion and close friend. / We shared sweet fellowship together; we walked with the crowd into the house of God. Proverbs 26:24-26 A hateful man disguises himself with his speech, but he lays up deceit in his heart. / When he speaks graciously, do not believe him, for seven abominations fill his heart. / Though his hatred is concealed by deception, his wickedness will be exposed in the assembly. Isaiah 24:16 From the ends of the earth we hear singing: “Glory to the Righteous One.” But I said, “I am wasting away! I am wasting away! Woe is me.” The treacherous betray; the treacherous deal in treachery. Matthew 24:10 At that time many will fall away and will betray and hate one another, Mark 13:12 Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise against their parents and have them put to death. John 13:21 After Jesus had said this, He became troubled in spirit and testified, “Truly, truly, I tell you, one of you will betray Me.” John 16:1-2 “I have told you these things so that you will not fall away. / They will put you out of the synagogues. In fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering a service to God. Romans 1:29-31 They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice. They are gossips, / slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful. They invent new forms of evil; they disobey their parents. / They are senseless, faithless, heartless, merciless. 2 Timothy 3:1-5 But understand this: In the last days terrible times will come. / For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, / unloving, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, without love of good, ... 2 Timothy 4:16 At my first defense, no one stood with me, but everyone deserted me. May it not be charged against them. 1 John 2:19 They went out from us, but they did not belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. But their departure made it clear that none of them belonged to us. Treasury of Scripture Take you heed every one of his neighbor, and trust you not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will walk with slanders. ye heed. Jeremiah 12:6 For even thy brethren, and the house of thy father, even they have dealt treacherously with thee; yea, they have called a multitude after thee: believe them not, though they speak fair words unto thee. Psalm 12:2,3 They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak… Psalm 55:11,12 Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets… neighbour. Genesis 27:35,36 And he said, Thy brother came with subtilty, and hath taken away thy blessing… Genesis 32:28 And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed. 1 Thessalonians 4:6 That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified. walk. Jeremiah 6:28 They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: they are brass and iron; they are all corrupters. Leviticus 19:16 Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour: I am the LORD. Psalm 15:3 He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour. Jump to Previous Acteth Beware Craftily Deals Deceiver Evil Faith Friend Friends Goes Guard Heed Neighbor Neighbour Slanderer Slanders Subtly Tricking Trust Utterly WalkJump to Next Acteth Beware Craftily Deals Deceiver Evil Faith Friend Friends Goes Guard Heed Neighbor Neighbour Slanderer Slanders Subtly Tricking Trust Utterly WalkJeremiah 9 1. Jeremiah laments the people for their manifold sins;9. and for their judgment. 12. Disobedience is the cause of their bitter calamity. 17. He exhorts to mourn for their destruction; 23. and to trust not in themselves, but in God. 25. He threatens both Jews and Gentiles. Let every one of you beware The Hebrew word for "beware" is "שָׁמַר" (shamar), which means to guard, keep, or watch over. In the context of Jeremiah, this is a call to vigilance and caution. The prophet Jeremiah is urging the people to be on guard against deceit and betrayal. This reflects the spiritual and moral decay of the society at the time, where trust had eroded, and individuals needed to be cautious even with those close to them. This serves as a timeless reminder for believers to be discerning and wise, guarding their hearts and minds against influences that could lead them astray. of his neighbor do not trust any brother For every brother will utterly supplant and every neighbor goes about as a slanderer Every brother will utterly supplant.--The word is that which gave the patriarch his significant name of Jacob, the supplanter (Genesis 25:26; Genesis 27:36). Jeremiah seems to say that the people have forfeited their claims to the name of the true Israel. Every brother Israelite is found to be a thorough-paced Jacob. The adverb "utterly" expresses the force of the Hebrew reduplication of the verb. . . . Verse 4. - Take ye heed every one of his neighbor. Such was the result of clinging to an unprogressive religion - one which refused to be spiritualized by the prophets. Certainly, if the established religion was so inefficacious, it was self-condemned. Hero we find the prophet depicting a state of society in which the elementary bonds are already dissolved, and suspicion becomes the natural attitude even of a good man. We find a very similar picture in the last chapter of Micah - a chapter, it is true, which stands apart from the rest of the book, as it implies a greater development of wickedness than the rest of Micah and the contemporary prophecies of Isaiah would lead us to expect. Are these prophetic descriptions just and accurate? We may allow something, no doubt, for the warmth of feeling natural to every human preacher, even under the influence of inspiration; but we must not allow ourselves to explain away the obvious meaning of the prophets. The latter and their disciples were "the salt" of their country; and in proportion as their influence declined, the natural effects of a non-moral, purely ritualistic religion showed themselves on a larger scale. Every brother; i.e. every fellow-tribesman or fellow-citizen. Will utterly supplant. There is nothing in the context to suggest an allusion to Genesis 27:36 (Jacob). The verb has its common sense of deceiving. The tense should be the present, not the future, both here and in the next verse. Will walk; rather, goeth about (see Jeremiah 6:28).Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew “Let everyoneאִ֤ישׁ (’îš) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 376: A man as an individual, a male person guard הִשָּׁמֵ֔רוּ (hiš·šā·mê·rū) Verb - Nifal - Imperative - masculine plural Strong's 8104: To hedge about, guard, to protect, attend to against וְעַל־ (wə·‘al-) Conjunctive waw | Preposition Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against his neighbor; מֵרֵעֵ֙הוּ֙ (mê·rê·‘ê·hū) Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular Strong's 7453: Friend, companion, fellow do not אַל־ (’al-) Adverb Strong's 408: Not trust תִּבְטָ֑חוּ (tiḇ·ṭā·ḥū) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural Strong's 982: To trust, be confident, sure any כָּל־ (kāl-) Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every brother, אָ֖ח (’āḥ) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 251: A brother, ) for כִּ֤י (kî) Conjunction Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction every כָל־ (ḵāl) Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every brother אָח֙ (’āḥ) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 251: A brother, ) deals עָק֣וֹב (‘ā·qō·wḇ) Verb - Qal - Infinitive absolute Strong's 6117: To follow at the heel, assail insidiously, circumvent, overreach craftily, יַעְקֹ֔ב (ya‘·qōḇ) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 6117: To follow at the heel, assail insidiously, circumvent, overreach and every וְכָל־ (wə·ḵāl) Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every friend רֵ֖עַ (rê·a‘) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 7453: Friend, companion, fellow spreads יַהֲלֹֽךְ׃ (ya·hă·lōḵ) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 1980: To go, come, walk slander. רָכִ֥יל (rā·ḵîl) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 7400: A scandal-monger Links Jeremiah 9:4 NIVJeremiah 9:4 NLT Jeremiah 9:4 ESV Jeremiah 9:4 NASB Jeremiah 9:4 KJV Jeremiah 9:4 BibleApps.com Jeremiah 9:4 Biblia Paralela Jeremiah 9:4 Chinese Bible Jeremiah 9:4 French Bible Jeremiah 9:4 Catholic Bible OT Prophets: Jeremiah 9:4 Take you heed everyone of his neighbor (Jer.) |
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