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They bend their tongue, [as it were] their bow, for falsehood; and they are grown strong in the land, but not for truth: for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don`t know me, says Yahweh.
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The Weaponized Tongue
Multiple commentators emphasize the powerful imagery of the tongue being bent like a bow to shoot lies. This isn't about careless falsehoods but about intentional, weaponized deceit. As Albert Barnes notes, just as a warrior prepares a bow for battle, the people deliberately prepared their tongues to inflict harm with lying words.
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Jeremiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
From their punishment the prophet now turns to their sins.
(Jeremiah 9:2) The prophet utters the wish that he might be spared hi…
19th Century
Anglican
Like their bow for lies. —The inserted words turn the boldness of the metaphor into a comparatively tame simile. They bend their tongu…
Baptist
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…
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16th Century
Protestant
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…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
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…
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13th Century
Catholic
First, he speaks of his own compassion regarding …
