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Their tongue is a deadly arrow.
    It speaks deceit.
One speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth,
    but in his heart, he waits to ambush him.
Shouldn’t I punish them for these things?” says Yahweh.
    “Shouldn’t my soul be avenged on a nation such as this?
10 I will weep and wail for the mountains,
    and lament for the pastures of the wilderness,
because they are burned up, so that no one passes through;
    Men can’t hear the voice of the livestock.
Both the birds of the sky and the animals have fled.
    They are gone.

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