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Jeremiah 9:8
New English Translation
Jeremiah 9:8
New English Translation
8 Their tongues are like deadly arrows.[a]
They are always telling lies.[b]
Friendly words for their neighbors come from their mouths,
but their minds are thinking up ways to trap them.[c]
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 9:8 tc This reading follows the Masoretic consonants (the Kethib, a Qal active participle from שָׁחַט, shakhat). The Masoretes preferred to read “a sharpened arrow” (the Qere, a Qal passive participle from the same root or a homonym, meaning “hammered, beaten”). See HALOT 1354 s.v. II שָׁחַט for discussion. The exact meaning of the word makes little difference to the meaning of the metaphor itself.
- Jeremiah 9:8 tn Heb “They speak deceit.”
- Jeremiah 9:8 tn Heb “With his mouth a person speaks peace to his neighbor, but in his heart he sets an ambush for him.”
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