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Those around me have ·planned trouble [L uplifted heads].
    Now let ·it [L the trouble of their lips] come to them.
10 Let burning coals ·fall [rain] on them.
    ·Throw them [Let them fall] into the fire
    or into pits from which they cannot ·escape [get up].
11 Don’t let ·liars [L a tongue-man] ·settle [be established] in the land.
    Let evil ·quickly [or with blows] hunt down ·cruel [violent] people.

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Those who surround me proudly rear their heads;
    may the mischief of their lips engulf them.(A)
10 May burning coals fall on them;
    may they be thrown into the fire,(B)
    into miry pits, never to rise.
11 May slanderers not be established in the land;
    may disaster hunt down the violent.(C)

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