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You will get a soldier’s sharp arrow
    and hot coals to punish you.

How I hate living here among these people!
    It’s like living in Meshech or in the tents of Kedar.[a]
I have lived too long
    with those who hate peace.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 120:5 Meshech … Kedar Places where the people were known as wild and savage fighters.

He will punish you with a warrior’s sharp arrows,(A)
    with burning coals of the broom bush.

Woe to me that I dwell in Meshek,
    that I live among the tents of Kedar!(B)
Too long have I lived
    among those who hate peace.

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