Jeremiah 9:3
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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Study Note
The social diagnosis — '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' — presents the collapse of truthful speech as the index of a society that has lost knowledge of God. The military metaphor of the tongue-as-bow (preparing lies like an archer nocking arrows) anticipates Psalm 64:3 and Romans 3:13 ('their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit'), suggesting a canonical tradition linking tongue-weaponry to social breakdown. The progression 'from evil to evil' describes moral deterioration as self-accelerating — sin's trajectory is not stabilisation but escalation. The final clause 'they know not me' identifies the theological root of the social pathology: relational knowledge of God (da'at YHWH) is the precondition of social integrity, and its absence produces endemic dishonesty.
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And 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 know not me, saith Jehovah.
And they bend their tongue, their bow <FI>is<Fi> a lie, And not for stedfastness have they been mighty in the land, For from evil unto evil they have gone forth, And Me they have not known, An affirmation of Jehovah!
Their tongues are bent like a bow to send out false words: they have become strong in the land, but not for good faith: they go on from evil to evil, and they have no knowledge of me, says the Lord.
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