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[a]They set their mouths against the heavens,
    their tongues roam the earth.
10 [b]So my people turn to them
    and drink deeply of their words.
11 They say, “Does God really know?”
    “Does the Most High have any knowledge?”(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 73:9 They set their mouths against the heavens: in an image probably derived from mythic stories of half-divine giants, the monstrous speech of the wicked is likened to enormous jaws gaping wide, devouring everything in sight.
  2. 73:10 The Hebrew is obscure.