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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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Albert Barnes
On Jeremiah 9:2–9
18th Century
Theologian
From their punishment the prophet now turns to their sins.
(Jeremiah 9:2) The prophet utters the wish that he might be spared hi…
Charles Ellicott
On Jeremiah 9:3
19th Century
Bishop
Like their bow for lies. —The inserted words turn the boldness of the metaphor into a comparatively tame simile. They bend their tongu…
Charles Spurgeon
On Jeremiah 9:3
19th Century
Preacher
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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John Calvin
On Jeremiah 9:3
16th Century
Theologian
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…
John Gill
On Jeremiah 9:3
17th Century
Pastor
And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies
Their tongues were like bows, and their lying words like arrows,…
Matthew Henry
On Jeremiah 9:1–11
17th Century
Minister
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…