“They make ready their tongue
    like a bow, to shoot lies;(A)
it is not by truth
    that they triumph[a] in the land.
They go from one sin to another;
    they do not acknowledge(B) me,”
declares the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 9:3 Or lies; / they are not valiant for truth

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.

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“And like their bow (A)they have bent their tongues for lies.
They are not valiant for the truth on the earth.
For they proceed from (B)evil to evil,
And they (C)do not know Me,” says the Lord.

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20 They do not speak peaceably,
    but devise false accusations(A)
    against those who live quietly in the land.

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20 For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.

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20 For they do not speak peace,
But they devise deceitful matters
Against the quiet ones in the land.

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