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