The Message Bible MSG
New International Version NIV
1 I'm in trouble. I cry to God, desperate for an answer:
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I call on the LORD in my distress, and he answers me.
2 "Deliver me from the liars, God! They smile so sweetly but lie through their teeth."
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Save me, LORD, from lying lips and from deceitful tongues.
3 Do you know what's next, can you see what's coming, all you barefaced liars?
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What will he do to you, and what more besides, you deceitful tongue?
4 Pointed arrows and burning coals will be your reward.
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He will punish you with a warrior’s sharp arrows, with burning coals of the broom bush.
5 I'm doomed to live in Meshech, cursed with a home in Kedar,
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Woe to me that I dwell in Meshek, that I live among the tents of Kedar!
6 My whole life lived camping among quarreling neighbors.
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Too long have I lived among those who hate peace.
7 I'm all for peace, but the minute I tell them so, they go to war!
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I am for peace; but when I speak, they are for war.
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