Isaiah 30:9

30:9 For these are rebellious people –

they are lying children,

children unwilling to obey the Lord’s law. ¹ 

Isaiah 59:3-4

59:3 For your hands are stained with blood

and your fingers with sin;

your lips speak lies,

your tongue utters malicious words.

59:4 No one is concerned about justice; ² 

no one sets forth his case truthfully.

They depend on false words ³  and tell lies;

they conceive of oppression ⁴ 

and give birth to sin.

Jeremiah 9:3-5

The Lord Laments That He Has No Choice But to Judge Them

9:3 The Lord says, ⁵ 

“These people are like soldiers who have readied their bows.

Their tongues are always ready to shoot out lies. ⁶ 

They have become powerful in the land,

but they have not done so by honest means. ⁷ 

Indeed, they do one evil thing after another ⁸ 

and do not pay attention to me. ⁹ 

9:4 Everyone must be on his guard around his friends.

He must not even trust any of his relatives. ¹⁰ 

For every one of them will find some way to cheat him. ¹¹ 

And all of his friends will tell lies about him.

9:5 One friend deceives another

and no one tells the truth.

These people have trained themselves ¹²  to tell lies.

They do wrong and are unable to repent.

Jeremiah 42:20

42:20 You are making a fatal mistake. ¹³  For you sent me to the Lord your God and asked me, ‘Pray to the Lord our God for us. Tell us what the Lord our God says and we will do it.’ ¹⁴ 

Ezekiel 13:22

13:22 This is because you have disheartened the righteous person with lies (although I have not grieved him), and because you have encouraged the wicked person not to turn from his evil conduct and preserve his life.

Hosea 11:12

God’s Lawsuit against Israel: Breach of Covenant

11:12 (12:1) ¹⁵  Ephraim has surrounded me with lies;

the house of Israel has surrounded me ¹⁶  with deceit.

But Judah still roams about with ¹⁷  God;

he remains faithful to the Holy One.

Acts 5:3

5:3 But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled ¹⁸  your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and keep back for yourself part of the proceeds from the sale of ¹⁹  the land?

Acts 5:2

5:2 He ²⁰  kept back for himself part of the proceeds with his wife’s knowledge; he brought ²¹  only part of it and placed it at the apostles’ feet.

Acts 2:9

2:9 Parthians, Medes, Elamites, and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and the province of Asia, ²² 

Acts 2:1

The Holy Spirit and the Day of Pentecost

2:1 Now ²³  when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place.

Acts 4:2

4:2 angry ²⁴  because they were teaching the people and announcing ²⁵  in Jesus the resurrection of the dead.

Revelation 21:8

21:8 But to the cowards, unbelievers, detestable persons, murderers, the sexually immoral, and those who practice magic spells, ²⁶  idol worshipers, ²⁷  and all those who lie, their place ²⁸  will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. ²⁹  That ³⁰  is the second death.”

Revelation 22:15

22:15 Outside are the dogs and the sorcerers ³¹  and the sexually immoral, and the murderers, and the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood! ³² 

[30:9]  ¹ tn Or perhaps, “instruction” (so NASB, NIV, NRSV); NCV, TEV “teachings.”

[59:4]  ² tn Heb “no one pleads with justice.”

[59:4]  ³ tn Heb “nothing”; NAB “emptiness.”

[59:4]  ⁴ tn Or “trouble” (NIV), or “harm.”

[9:3]  ⁵ tn The words “The Lord says” have been moved up from the end of the verse to make clear that a change in speaker has occurred.

[9:3]  ⁶ tn Heb “They have readied [or strung] their tongue as their bow for lies.”

[9:3]  ⁷ tn Heb “but not through honesty.”

[9:3]  ⁸ tn Heb “they go from evil to evil.”

[9:3]  ⁹ tn Or “do not acknowledge me”; Heb “do not know me.” But “knowing” in Hebrew thought often involves more than intellectual knowledge; it involves emotional and volitional commitment as well. For יָדַע meaning “acknowledge” see 1 Chr 28:9; Isa 29:21; Hos 2:20; Prov 3:6. This word is also found in ancient Near Eastern treaty contexts where it has the idea of a vassal king acknowledging the sovereignty of a greater king (cf. H. Huffmon, “The Treaty Background of Hebrew yada,” BASOR 181 [1966]: 31-37).

[9:4]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “Be on your guard…Do not trust.” The verbs are second masculine plural of direct address and there seems no way to translate literally and not give the mistaken impression that Jeremiah is being addressed. This is another example of the tendency in Hebrew style to turn from description to direct address (a figure of speech called apostrophe).

[9:4]  ¹¹ tn Heb “cheating, each of them will cheat.”

[9:5]  ¹² tn Heb “their tongues.” However, this is probably not a natural idiom in contemporary English and the tongue may stand as a part for the whole anyway.

[42:20]  ¹³ tn Heb “you are erring at the cost of your own lives” (BDB 1073 s.v. תָּעָה Hiph.3 and HALOT 1626 s.v. תָּעָה Hif 4, and cf. BDB 90 s.v. בְּ 3 and see parallels in 1 Kgs 2:23; 2 Sam 23:17 for the nuance of “at the cost of your lives”). This fits the context better than “you are deceiving yourselves” (KBL 1035 s.v. תָּעָה Hif 4). The reading here follows the Qere הִתְעֵיתֶם (hit’etem) rather than the Kethib which has a metathesis of י (yod) and ת (tav), i.e., הִתְעֵתֶים. The Greek text presupposes הֲרֵעֹתֶם (hare’otem, “you have done evil”), but that reading is generally rejected as secondary.

[42:20]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “According to all which the Lord our God says so tell us and we will do.” The restructuring of the sentence is intended to better reflect contemporary English style.

[11:12]  ¹⁵ sn Beginning with 11:12, the verse numbers through 12:14 in the English Bible differ by one from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text (BHS), with 11:12 ET = 12:1 HT, 12:1 ET = 12:2 HT, etc., through 12:14 ET = 12:15 HT. From 13:1 to 13:16 the verse numbers in the English Bible and the Hebrew Bible are again the same.

[11:12]  ¹⁶ tn The phrase “has surrounded me” is not repeated in the Hebrew text here, but is implied by the parallelism in the preceding line. It is supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons, smoothness, and readability.

[11:12]  ¹⁷ tn The verb רוּד (rud, “to roam about freely”) is used in a concrete sense to refer to someone wandering restlessly and roaming back and forth (BDB 923 s.v. רוּד; Judg 11:37). Here, it is used figuratively, possibly with positive connotations, as indicated by the preposition עִם (’im, “with”), to indicate accompaniment: “but Judah still goes about with God” (HALOT 1194 s.v. רוד). Some English versions render it positively: “Judah still walks with God” (RSV, NRSV); “Judah is restive under God” (REB); “but Judah stands firm with God” (NJPS); “but Judah yet ruleth with God” (KJV, ASV). Other English versions adopt the negative connotation “to wander restlessly” and nuance עִם in an adversative sense (“against”): “Judah is still rebellious against God” (NAB), “Judah is unruly against God” (NIV), and “the people of Judah are still rebelling against me” (TEV).

[5:3]  ¹⁸ sn This is a good example of the Greek verb fill (πληρόω, plhrow) meaning “to exercise control over someone’s thought and action” (cf. Eph 5:18).

[5:3]  ¹⁹ tn The words “from the sale of” are not in the Greek text, but are supplied to clarify the meaning, since the phrase “proceeds from the land” could possibly be understood as crops rather than money from the sale.

[5:2]  ²⁰ tn Grk “And he.” Because of the length of the Greek sentence and the tendency of contemporary English style to use shorter sentences, καί (kai) has not been translated here.

[5:2]  ²¹ tn The participle ἐνέγκας (enenka") has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style.

[2:9]  ²² tn Grk “Asia”; in the NT this always refers to the Roman province of Asia, made up of about one-third of the west and southwest end of modern Asia Minor. Asia lay to the west of the region of Phrygia and Galatia. The words “the province of” are supplied to indicate to the modern reader that this does not refer to the continent of Asia.

[2:1]  ²³ tn Grk “And” Here καί (kai) has been translated as “now” to indicate the transition to a new topic. Greek style often begins sentences or clauses with “and,” but English style does not.

[4:2]  ²⁴ tn Or “greatly annoyed,” “provoked.”

[4:2]  ²⁵ tn Or “proclaiming.”

[21:8]  ²⁶ tn On the term φαρμακεία (farmakeia, “magic spells”) see L&N 53.100: “the use of magic, often involving drugs and the casting of spells upon people – ‘to practice magic, to cast spells upon, to engage in sorcery, magic, sorcery.’ φαρμακεία: ἐν τῇ φαρμακείᾳ σου ἐπλανήθησαν πάντα τὰ ἔθνη ‘with your magic spells you deceived all the peoples (of the world)’ Re 18:23.”

[21:8]  ²⁷ tn Grk “idolaters.”

[21:8]  ²⁸ tn Grk “their share.”

[21:8]  ²⁹ tn Traditionally, “brimstone.”

[21:8]  ³⁰ tn Grk “sulfur, which is.” The relative pronoun has been translated as “that” to indicate its connection to the previous clause. The nearest logical antecedent is “the lake [that burns with fire and sulfur],” although “lake” (λίμνη, limnh) is feminine gender, while the pronoun “which” (ὅ, Jo) is neuter gender. This means that (1) the proper antecedent could be “their place” (Grk “their share,”) agreeing with the relative pronoun in number and gender, or (2) the neuter pronoun still has as its antecedent the feminine noun “lake,” since agreement in gender between pronoun and antecedent was not always maintained, with an explanatory phrase occurring with a neuter pronoun regardless of the case of the antecedent. In favor of the latter explanation is Rev 20:14, where the phrase “the lake of fire” is in apposition to the phrase “the second death.”

[22:15]  ³¹ tn On the term φάρμακοι (farmakoi) see L&N 53.101.

[22:15]  ³² tn Or “lying,” “deceit.”