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1 When I was in trouble, I cried out to the LORD, and he answered me.
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1 I call on the LORD in my distress, and he answers me.
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2 O LORD, rescue me from lying lips and from a deceitful tongue.
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2 Save me, O LORD, from lying lips and from deceitful tongues.
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3 You deceitful tongue, what can the LORD give you? What more can he do for you?
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3 What will he do to you, and what more besides, O deceitful tongue?
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4 He will give you a warrior's sharpened arrows and red-hot coals.
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4 He will punish you with a warrior's sharp arrows, with burning coals of the broom tree.
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5 How horrible it is to live as a foreigner in Meshech or to stay in the tents of Kedar.
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5 Woe to me that I dwell in Meshech, that I live among the tents of Kedar!
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6 I have lived too long with those who hate peace.
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6 Too long have I lived among those who hate peace.
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7 I am for peace, but when I talk about it, they only talk about war.
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7 I am a man of peace; but when I speak, they are for war.
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