LEB(i)
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? 8 Their tongue is a murderous arrow, it speaks deceit. With his mouth he speaks peace with his neighbor, but in his inner parts he sets up his ambush. 9 Because of these things shall I not punish them?" ⌊declares⌋* Yahweh, "On a nation that is like this shall I not take revenge?
"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? 8 Their tongue is a murderous arrow, it speaks deceit. With his mouth he speaks peace with his neighbor, but in his inner parts he sets up his ambush. 9 Because of these things shall I not punish them?" ⌊declares⌋* Yahweh, "On a nation that is like this shall I not take revenge?