Jeremiah 48:30 - Exposition

But it shall not be so, etc. This is a case in which the accentuation must most decidedly be deviated from; it implies a faulty view of the word rendered in the Authorized Version, "his lies." But the rendering of our version is neither in itself tenable nor is it that intended by the accentuation. The rendering suggested by the latter is "his praters" ( i.e. soothsayers), as the word, no doubt, must be taken in Jeremiah 1:1-19 :36; Isaiah 44:25 . But it is much more natural to render thus: "And the untruth of his pratings [ i.e. of his boastings]; the untruth that they have wrought." In his words and in his works (and a word is equal to a work before the Divine Judge) Mesh was essentially "untrue." Truth, in the Biblical sense, is to know and serve the true God.