World English Bible
"Though they say, 'As Yahweh lives;' surely they swear falsely.""
— Jeremiah 5:2, World English Bible
“And though they say, The Lord liveth; surely they swear falsely.”
“And though they say, As Jehovah liveth; surely they swear falsely. ”
“These people make promises in the name of the LORD. But the fact is, what they swear to is really a lie.””
“And though they say: The Lord liveth; this also they will swear falsely.”
“And though they say, By the living Lord; truly their oaths are false.”
“And though they say, The Lord liveth; surely they swear falsely.”
"Run back and forth through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places of it, if you can find a man, if there are any who does justly, who seeks truth; and I will pardon her.
Though they say, 'As Yahweh lives;' surely they swear falsely."
O Yahweh, don't your eyes look on truth? You have stricken them, but they were not grieved. You have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction. They have made their faces harder than a rock. They have refused to return.
Then I said, "Surely these are poor. They are foolish; for they don't know the way of Yahweh, nor the law of their God.
I will go to the great men, and will speak to them; for they know the way of Yahweh, and the law of their God." But these with one accord have broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.