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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 — KJV
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Jeremiah 9:3
King James Version (KJV)
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Commentary
Commentary on Jeremiah 9:3
Theological / DevotionalThey bend. Literally, “tread.” The large battle bows were strung by pressing the foot on the lower end while the other end was bent to receive the ox-gut bowstring. The Hebrew for the bow benders of ch. 50:14, 29 is literally, “treaders of the bow.”
Tongues. Their tongue is compared to a bow with which they shoot the arrows of lies at their neighbors (see Ps. 57:4; 58:7; 64:3, 4; cf. Isa. 59:4).
Truth. See on chs. 5:3; 7:28. The LXX renders this clause, “Falsehood and not faithfulness has prevailed.” It was not by the norm of honor and integrity that the people had grown strong and rich in the land, but by craft, fraud, and overreaching.
Earth. Here preferably “land” (see on ch. 4:20, 23).
From evil to evil. There can be no standstill in evil. Sinners progress from one form of wickedness to another (see 2 Tim. 3:13).
They know not. Meaning, “they acknowledge not” (see 1 Sam. 2:12; Job 18:21; Hosea 4:1). This was the root cause of all their evil.
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