LEB(i)
2 ⌊Oh that I had⌋* in the desert a place of overnight lodging for travelers, that I may leave my people and go from them, for all of them are adulterers, a band of traitors.
3 And they bend their tongue like their bow, for falsehood and not truth is superior in the land, for they go forth* from evil to evil, and they do not know me," ⌊declares⌋* Yahweh.
4 "Let everyone be on your guard against his neighbor, and you must not trust in any brother, for everyone surely betrays, and every neighbor goes about with slander.
5 And everyone deceives his neighbor, and they do not speak the truth, they have taught their tongues* to speak lies,* they are tired from going astray.
6 Your dwelling is in the midst of deceit, upon* deceit they refuse to know me," ⌊declares⌋* Yahweh.
7 Therefore, thus says Yahweh of hosts:
"Look, I am about to refine them, and I will test them, for what else can I do, because of the ⌊presence⌋* of the daughter of my people?
"Look, I am about to refine them, and I will test them, for what else can I do, because of the ⌊presence⌋* of the daughter of my people?