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Selected Verse: Jeremiah 9:5 - King James

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Jer 9:5 King James And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
weary themselves--are at laborious pains to act perversely [MAURER]. Sin is a hard bondage (Hab 2:13).
 
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13 Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts that the people shall labour in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for very vanity?