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62 The whispers and murmurs of my assailants
    are against me all day long.

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therefore prophesy and say: Thus says the Lord God: Because they made you desolate indeed and crushed you from all sides, so that you became the possession of the rest of the nations and an object of gossip and slander among the people,(A)

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They make their tongue sharp as a snake’s,
    and under their lips is the venom of vipers. Selah(A)

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12 For the sin of their mouths, the words of their lips,
    let them be trapped in their pride.
For the cursing and lies that they utter,(A)

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There they are, bellowing with their mouths,
    with sharp words[a] on their lips,
    for “Who,” they think,[b] “will hear us?”(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 59.7 Heb with swords
  2. 59.7 Heb lacks they think

A Plot against Jeremiah

18 Then they said, “Come, let us make plots against Jeremiah, for instruction shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, let us bring charges against him,[a] and let us not heed any of his words.”(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 18.18 Heb strike him with the tongue