2 Samuel 23:5-7
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
5 Is not my house firm before God?
He has made an eternal covenant with me,
set forth in detail and secured.(A)
Will he not bring to fruition
all my salvation and my every desire?
6 But the wicked are all like thorns to be cast away;
they cannot be taken up by hand.(B)
7 One wishing to touch them
must be armed with iron or the shaft of a spear.
They must be utterly consumed by fire.
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