2020-03-20 16:49:32 +00:00
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# This is Yahweh's declaration
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2017-12-12 06:13:24 +00:00
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2024-08-28 18:59:03 +00:00
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See how you translated these words in Jeremiah 1:8.
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2017-12-12 06:13:24 +00:00
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2019-01-10 21:43:38 +00:00
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# They bend their tongues like their bows for lies
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2024-08-28 18:59:03 +00:00
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"Their tongues are like bows which they prepare to shoot out lies" or "Their lies are like arrows that they shoot with their tongues"
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2017-12-12 06:13:24 +00:00
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2019-01-10 21:43:38 +00:00
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# They
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Here the word "They" refers to God's people.
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2017-12-12 06:13:24 +00:00
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2019-01-14 21:49:19 +00:00
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# and it is not because of any faithfulness of theirs that they grow strong on the earth
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2017-12-12 06:13:24 +00:00
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2024-08-28 18:59:03 +00:00
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"and they grow strong on the earth, but it is not because they are faithful"
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2017-12-12 06:13:24 +00:00
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2019-01-14 21:49:19 +00:00
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# For they go from one wicked act to another
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2017-12-12 06:13:24 +00:00
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2024-08-28 18:59:03 +00:00
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"For they keep doing evil things"
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