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They tell lies to one another,
    speak with deceiving lips and a double heart.(A)

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Their mouths pour out insult;
    sharp words are on their lips.
    They say: “Who is there to hear?”[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 59:8 Who is there to hear?: a sample of the enemies’ godless reflection. The answer is that God hears their blasphemies.

Lord, deliver my soul from lying lips,
    from a treacherous tongue.(A)

What will he inflict on you,
    O treacherous tongue,
    and what more besides?[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 120:3 More besides: a common curse formula in Hebrew was “May the Lord do such and such evils to you [the evils being specified], and add still more to them,” cf. 1 Sm 3:17; 14:44; 25:22. Here the psalmist is at a loss for a suitable malediction.

    You have rescued me according to your abundant mercy(A)
From the snare of those who look for my downfall,
    and from the power of those who seek my life.

From many dangers you have saved me,

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