Jeremiah 5:2

These people make promises in the name of the Lord. ¹  But the fact is, ²  what they swear to is really a lie.” ³ 

Le 19:12; Isa 48:1; Jer 4:2; Jer 7:9; Ho 4:1,2,15; Ho 10:4; Zec 5:3,4; Mal 3:5; 1Ti 1:10; 2Ti 3:5; Tit 1:16

¹ tn Heb “Though they say, ‘As surely as the Lord lives.” The idea of “swear on oath” comes from the second line.

² tc The translation follows many Hebrew mss and the Syriac version in reading “surely” (אָכֵן, ’akhen) instead of “therefore” (לָכֵן, lakhen) in the MT.

tn Heb “Surely.”

³ tn Heb “they swear falsely.”