⁸ Their tongue ^(A)is as an arrow shot out, and speaketh deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart he layeth wait for him.

⁹ Shall I not visit them for these things, saith the Lord? or shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

¹⁰ Upon the ^[a]mountains will I take up a weeping and a lamentation, and upon the fair places of the wilderness a mourning, because they are burnt up, so that none can pass through them, neither can men hear the voice of the flock: both the fowl of the air, and the beast are fled away and gone.