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Jeremiah 9:3 KJV
Jeremiah · chapter 9 · verse 3
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.Jeremiah 9:3 · King James Version
Jeremiah 9:3 in context
1Oh that my head were waters, and mine 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 upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD.
4Take 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.
5And 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.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- tongueslâshôwnthe tongue , used literally , and figurativelyH3956 →
- valiantgâbarto be strongH1396 →
- proceedyâtsâʼto go out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and…H3318 →
- truthʼĕmûwnâhliterally firmnessH530 →
- earthʼeretsthe earthH776 →
- benddârakto treadH1869 →
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The prophet, being commissioned both to foretel the destruction coming upon Judah and Jerusalem and to point out the sin for which that destruction was brought upon them, here, as elsewhere, speaks of both very feelingly: what he said of both came from the heart, and therefore one would have thought it would reach to…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-11