2Though they say, 'As Yahweh lives;' surely they swear falsely.|


In Context

1 |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.

2 Though they say, 'As Yahweh lives;' surely they swear falsely.|

3 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.

4 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.

Jeremiah 5:2 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:2And though they say, The LORD liveth; surely they swear falsely.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

5:2Although they say, 'As surely as the Lord lives,' still they are swearing falsely."

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

5:2And though they say: The Lord liveth; this also they will swear falsely.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

5:2And though they say, As Jehovah liveth; surely they swear falsely.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:2And if they say, As Jehovah liveth! surely they swear falsely.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

5:2And though they say, As the LORD liveth; surely they swear falsely.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:2And though they say, The LORD liveth; surely they swear falsely.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

5:2And if they say, 'Jehovah liveth,' Surely to a falsehood they swear.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:2And though they say, The LORD lives; surely they swear falsely.