They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: [with] flattering lips [and] with a double heart do they speak.
Ver. 2. They speak vanity every one with his neighbour] They speak falsely and fraudulently, and therein have an art, as Jeremiah 9:4,5, such as the devil hath taught them.
With flattering lips] Blandientibus, vel dividentibus. The Syriac version hath it, with dividing lips, such as separate very friends.
With a double heart do theft speak] Heb. With a heart and a heart. So Horace saith of Ulysses (Ode. 6, Animus versutulus et versatilis).
Cursus doplicis per mare Ulyssei.
The prophet here meaneth that they had one heart in their body, and another in their mouth, being desperate dissemblers, such as the French are said to be. Those men of Zebulun were none such, 1 Chronicles 12:33 .