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    that says, “We’re unbeatable with our tongues!
    Who could get the best of us with lips like ours?”

But the Lord says,
    “Because the poor are oppressed,
    because of the groans of the needy,
    I’m now standing up.
    I will provide the help they are gasping for.”[a]
The Lord’s promises are pure,
    like silver that’s been refined in an oven,
    purified seven times over!

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 12:5 Heb uncertain

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