From e04616ac351edc904de9b6d78537a7449cbb0488 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Susan Quigley Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2019 21:49:18 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update 'jer/09/03.md' --- jer/09/03.md | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/jer/09/03.md b/jer/09/03.md index 18f48c3aa1..db60fbb01b 100644 --- a/jer/09/03.md +++ b/jer/09/03.md @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ See how you translated "this is Yahweh's declaration" in [Jeremiah 1:8](../01/08.md). # They bend their tongues like their bows for lies -God speaks of liars as if they were people who shoot others with bows and arrows. People who use bows and arrows bend their bows in order to fasten the bowstrings. Just as they prepare to shoot arrows, liars prepare to tell lies. Alternate translation: "Their tongues are like bows which they prepare to shoot out lies" or "Their lies are like arrows that they shoot with the tongues" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]]) +God speaks of liars as if they were people who shoot others with bows and arrows. People who use bows and arrows bend their bows in order to fasten the bowstrings. Just as they prepare to shoot arrows, liars prepare to tell lies. Alternate translation: "Their tongues are like bows which they prepare to shoot out lies" or "Their lies are like arrows that they shoot with their tongues" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]]) # They @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Here the word "They" refers to God's people. # but it is not because of any faithfulness of theirs that they grow strong on the earth -Apparently the people thought that the reason they were strong was that they were faithful. But they were not faithful. Alternate translation: "and they grow strong on the earth, but it is not because they are faithful" or "and they grow strong on the earth, but not by being faithful" +Apparently God's people thought that the reason they were strong was that they were faithful. But they were not faithful. Alternate translation: "and they grow strong on the earth, but it is not because they are faithful" or "and they grow strong on the earth, but not by being faithful" # They go from one wicked act to another