Deliver me, O Lord,
    from lying lips,
    from a deceitful tongue.

What shall be given to you,
    (A)and what more shall be done to you,
    you deceitful tongue?
(B)A warrior's (C)sharp arrows,
    with glowing (D)coals of the broom tree!

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27 (A)A worthless man plots evil,
    and his speech[a] is like (B)a scorching fire.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 16:27 Hebrew what is on his lips

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