⁴ tn Heb “speech of falsehood”; NRSV “false speech.”

³ tn Heb “from a lip of falsehood.”

² tn Heb “for their deceit [is] falsehood.”

² tn Heb “conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.”

¹ tn Heb “for [with] falsehood they have denied me justice.”

¹ tn Heb “And you shall not swear to the falsehood.”

¹ tn Heb “if a man, coming [as] wind and falsehood, should lie”; NASB “walking after wind and falsehood”; NIV “a liar and a deceiver.”

² tn Heb “who [with] their mouth speak falsehood, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.” See v. 8 where the same expression occurs.

² tn Or “nothing but a phony god”; Heb “a lie/falsehood.”

² tn Heb “has not turned back to me with all her heart but only in falsehood.”

² tn Heb “word of falsehood” or “lying word.” Cf. TEV “false information.”

² tn Heb “a witness of falsehood.” The genitive functions in an attributive sense: “false witness.”

¹ tn Heb “the ones who observe vain things of falsehood.” See Jonah 2:9.

¹ tn Heb “or from all which he swears on it to falsehood.”

¹ tn Heb “and swears on falsehood”; cf. CEV “deny something while under oath.”

² tn Heb “a word of falsehood.” The genitive “falsehood” functions as an attributive genitive. The construct noun דְּבַר (d^evar) means either “word” or “thing.” Hence, the phrase means “a false word” or “a false thing.”

³ tn Heb “to ruin the poor with words of falsehood, even when the needy speak what is just.”

⁴ tn Grk “practicing abomination or falsehood.” Because of the way βδέλυγμα (bdelugma) has been translated (“does what is detestable”) it was necessary to repeat the idea from the participle ποιῶν (poiōn, “practices”) before the term “falsehood.” On this term, BDAG 1097 s.v. ψεῦδος states, “ποιεῖν ψεῦδος practice (the things that go with) falsehood Rv 21:27; 22:15.” Cf. Rev 3:9.

³ tn Heb “a gift of falsehood.” This would mean that the individual brags about giving a gift, when there is no gift.

¹ tn Heb “for a mouth of evil and a mouth of deceit against me they open, they speak with me [with] a tongue of falsehood.”