The Pulpit Commentary on Jeremiah 9:3

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

And they bend their tongues, etc.; rather, and they bend their tongue as their bow of falsehood, and they use not their valor in (literally, according to) good faith. There is a sad, stern irony in these words, which remind us of Isaiah's (Isaiah 5:22) "valiant men—for drinking wine" and of our own prophet's repetition of himself in Jeremiah 22:10, "Their valor is—untruth."

A less pointed form of the same figurative statement is that of the psalmist in Psalms 64:3. Upon the earth; rather, in the land. The Authorized Version pays very little regard to the context in its rendering of the ambiguous word erec.

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