Translations
KJVPrimary
King James VersionWhose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
F.O.G.Secondary
The F.O.Gwhose mouths speak emptiness, whose right hand is a right hand of lies.
F.O.G.M.
F.O.G Messagewhose every word is empty wind, whose solemn oath is nothing but a vow of deceit.
BSB
Berean Standard Biblewhose mouths speak falsehood, whose right hands are deceitful.
Footnotes
The accusation pairs shav ('emptiness/vanity/falsehood' — the same root as the third commandment's prohibition on taking YHWH's name l'shav, 'in vain') with sheker ('deception/outright lie'). Critically, the 'right hand' (yamin) was the hand of covenant oath-taking in the ANE — raising it was the gesture of swearing allegiance or sealing a treaty. A 'right hand of sheker' is therefore specifically a false-oath hand: these enemies desecrate the covenant gesture itself. F.O.G. uses 'emptiness' to keep the shav-commandment echo alive; F.O.G.M. uses 'empty wind' and 'vow of deceit' to make the broken-covenant treachery viscerally clear.
