From their punishment the prophet now turns to their sins.

(Jeremiah 9:2) The prophet utters the wish that he might be spared hi…

Like their bow for lies. —The inserted words turn the boldness of the metaphor into a comparatively tame simile. They bend their tongu…

And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies:

They made use of the tongue, as if it were a bow, to shoot out falsehood. It is…

Jeremiah confirms what he had said about the near destruction of the people; for, as we have said, the Jews ridiculed threats while they thought th…

And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies
Their tongues were like bows, and their lying words like arrows,…

Jeremiah wept much, yet wished he could weep more, that he might rouse the people to a due sense of the hand of God. But even the desert, without c…

1. Here, he shows their obstinacy in sins that are directly against their neighbor.

First, he speaks of his own compa ion regarding t…