Therefore, this is what the Lord of Armies says:

I am about to refine them and test them,(A)
for what else can I do
because of my dear[a] people?[b]
Their tongues are deadly arrows—
they speak deception.(B)
With his mouth
one speaks peaceably with his friend,
but inwardly he sets up an ambush.
Should I not punish them for these things?
This is the Lord’s declaration.
Should I not avenge myself(C)
on such a nation as this?

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Footnotes

  1. 9:7 Lit of the daughter of my
  2. 9:7 LXX, Tg read because of their evils

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