28 For you say, “Where now is the nobleman’s house?”
and “Where are the tents(A) the wicked lived in?”

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28 You say, ‘Where now is the house of the great,(A)
    the tents where the wicked lived?’(B)

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28 For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?

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They bent their tongues like their bows;
lies and not faithfulness prevail in the land,
for they proceed from one evil to another,
and they do not take Me into account.(A)
This is the Lord’s declaration.

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“They make ready their tongue
    like a bow, to shoot lies;(A)
it is not by truth
    that they triumph[a] in the land.
They go from one sin to another;
    they do not acknowledge(B) me,”
declares the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 9:3 Or lies; / they are not valiant for truth

And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the Lord.

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not with lustful desires,(A) like the Gentiles who don’t know God.

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not in passionate lust(A) like the pagans,(B) who do not know God;(C)

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Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:

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