Your habitation is in the middle of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, said the LORD. Treasury of Scripture habitation. Jeremiah 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... Jeremiah 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... Jeremiah 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... Psalm 120:2-6 Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue... refuse. Jeremiah 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... Job 21:14,15 Therefore they say to God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of your ways... Proverbs 1:24,29 Because I have called, and you refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded... Hosea 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you... John 3:19,20 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light... Romans 1:28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind... 1 Corinthians 15:34 Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.
Context Jeremiah's Continual Tears
1Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people! 2Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men. 3And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth on the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, said the LORD. 4Take 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. 5And they will deceive every one his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity. 6Your habitation is in the middle of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, said the LORD. 7Therefore thus said the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people? 8Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaks deceit: one speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in heart he lays his wait. 9Shall I not visit them for these things? said the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? 10For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone. 11And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant. 12Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of the LORD has spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perishes and is burned up like a wilderness, that none passes through? 13And the LORD said, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein; 14But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them: 15Therefore thus said the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink. 16I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them. Parallel Verses American Standard Version Thy habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith Jehovah.
Douay-Rheims Bible Thy habitation is in the midst of deceit: Through deceit they have refused to know me, saith the Lord.
Darby Bible Translation Thy habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith Jehovah.
King James Bible Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD.
Young's Literal Translation thy dwelling is in the midst of deceit, Through deceit they refused to know Me, An affirmation of Jehovah.
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