GOD'S WORD Translation GW
New International Version NIV
2 O LORD, rescue me from lying lips and from a deceitful tongue.
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Save me, LORD, from lying lips and from deceitful tongues.
3 You deceitful tongue, what can the LORD give you? What more can he do for you?
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What will he do to you, and what more besides, you deceitful tongue?
4 He will give you a warrior's sharpened arrows and red-hot coals.
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He will punish you with a warrior’s sharp arrows, with burning coals of the broom bush.
5 How horrible it is to live as a foreigner in Meshech or to stay in the tents of Kedar.
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Woe to me that I dwell in Meshek, that I live among the tents of Kedar!
6 I have lived too long with those who hate peace.
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Too long have I lived among those who hate peace.
7 I am for peace, but when I talk about it, they only talk about war.
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I am for peace; but when I speak, they are for war.
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