You live in a world of deception.[a](A)
In their deception they refuse to know me.(B)
This is the Lord’s declaration.

Therefore, this is what the Lord of Armies says:

I am about to refine them and test them,(C)
for what else can I do
because of my dear[b] people?[c]
Their tongues are deadly arrows—
they speak deception.(D)
With his mouth
one speaks peaceably with his friend,
but inwardly he sets up an ambush.

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Footnotes

  1. 9:6 LXX reads Oppression on oppression, deceit on deceit
  2. 9:7 Lit of the daughter of my
  3. 9:7 LXX, Tg read because of their evils

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