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(4) You love all words that eat people up,
you deceitful tongue!

(5) This is why God will strike you down,
seize you, pluck you from your tent
and uproot you from the land of the living. (Selah)

(6) The righteous will see and be awestruck;
they will jeer at him, saying,

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The righteous will see and fear;
    they will laugh(A) at you, saying,
“Here now is the man
    who did not make God his stronghold(B)
but trusted in his great wealth(C)
    and grew strong by destroying others!”

But I am like an olive tree(D)
    flourishing in the house of God;
I trust(E) in God’s unfailing love
    for ever and ever.

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