Jer_5:2 And though they say, The LORD liveth; surely they swear falsely.
Ver. 2. And though they say, The Lord liveth,] i.e., Albeit they talk religiously, as those pretenders also did, {Isa_66:5} and make a great flaunt, as if some great matter, with Simon Magus, {Act_8:9} yet they are arrant hypocrites, and therefore odious to me who desire "truth in the inward parts." {Psa_51:6} These neither "say the truth," nor "do" it. {1Jn_3:10}