Jeremiah 3:23

23. In vain… from the hills Various translations of this text have been made: “Surely in vain from the hills is the revelry of the mountains.” Dean Smith. “As certainly as hills are false, mountains are empty sound,” etc. Nagelsbach. “Surely hills are lies, the tumult of the mountains.” Blayney. “In vain resounds from the hills revelry, even from the mountains.” Ewald. “Truly the sound from the hills, from the mountains, is become falsehood.” Keil. This last conforms closely to the original, and gives a sense manifestly congruous with the context. The passage states the falseness of idolatrous trusts, and calls back the thought of the people to the one God as the only ground of confidence.