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Jeremiah 5:2
And though they say, By the living Lord; truly their oaths are false.
Jeremiah 5:2 · Bible in Basic English
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Jeremiah 5:2 in other translations
And though they say, The LORD liveth; surely they swear falsely.
Although they say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives,’ they are swearing falsely.”
Though they say, ‘As the LORD lives,’ surely they swear falsely.”
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In context
1 Go quickly through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and get knowledge, and make a search in her wide places if there is a man, if there is one in her who is upright, who keeps faith; and she will have my forgiveness.
2 And though they say, By the living Lord; truly their oaths are false.
3 O Lord, do not your eyes see good faith? you have given them punishment, but they were not troubled; you have sent destruction on them, but they did not take your teaching to heart: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they would not come back.
4 Then I said, But these are the poor: they are foolish, for they have no knowledge of the way of the Lord or of the behaviour desired by their God.
5 I will go to the great men and have talk with them; for they have knowledge of the way of the Lord and of the behaviour desired by their God. But as for these, their one purpose is a broken yoke and burst bands.
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