Will he beg you for mercy or speak softly to you?
Will he make many supplications unto thee? Will he speak soft words unto thee?
Will he make many supplications to you [begging to be spared]? Will he speak soft words to you [to coax you to treat him kindly]?
Will he make many supplications unto thee? Or will he speak soft words unto thee?
Will he beg you at length or speak gentle words to you?
I will not spare him, nor his powerful words and counterfeit attempts at supplication.
I will not spare him, nor his mighty words, and framed to make supplication.
Can you put a cord through his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook?
Will he make a covenant with you so that you can take him as a slave for ever?
Now if you will carefully listen to me and keep my covenant, you will be my own possession out of all the peoples, although the whole earth is mine,
A gentle answer turns away anger, but a harsh word stirs up wrath.
The poor person pleads, but the rich one answers roughly.
A ruler can be persuaded through patience, and a gentle tongue can break a bone.
They say to the seers, ‘Do not see,’ and to the prophets, ‘Do not prophesy the truth to us. Tell us flattering things. Prophesy illusions.
‘The silver and gold belong to me’ #– #this is the declaration of the Lord of Armies.