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The UBS Handbooks are detailed commentaries providing valuable exegetical, historical, cultural, and linguistic information on the books of the Bible. They are prepared primarily to assist Bible translators as they carry out the important task of putting God’s Word into the many languages spoken in the world today. The text is discussed verse by verse, and is accompanied by running text in at...

In this section the author ridicules idol worship because people put fancy clothing on idols in spite of the fact that these images cannot take care of themselves. Section Heading “First warning: Idols are not gods” may also be rendered “Jeremiah first warns the people that the images of gods are not really gods.” 8 Their tongues are smoothed by the craftsman …: The pronoun Their refers to the idols, and this must be made clear, as in GNT and CEV. For
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