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Their tongues are like deadly arrows.
    They tell lies.
With their mouths all of them speak kindly to their neighbors.
    But in their hearts they set traps for them.
Shouldn’t I punish them for this?”
    announces the Lord.
“Shouldn’t I pay back the nation
    that does these things?”

10 I will cry and mourn over the mountains.
    I will sing a song of sadness about the desert grasslands.
They are dry and empty. No one travels through them.
    The mooing of cattle isn’t heard there.
The birds have flown away.
    All the animals are gone.

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