Sharp arrows of a mighty man, With coals of the broom-wood!
A false witness does not go unpunished, And he who breathes out lies perishes.
Death and life are in the power of the tongue, And those loving it eat its fruit.
A false witness does not go unpunished, And he who breaths out lies does not escape.
A man of Beliyaʽ
Your arrows are sharp In the heart of the Sovereign’s enemies – Peoples fall under You.
“But as for the cowardly, and untrustworthy, and abominable, and murderers, and those who whore, and drug sorcerers, and idolaters, and all the false, their part is in the lake which burns with fire and sulphur, which is the second death.”
Lying lips are an abomination to יהוה, But those who deal truly are His delight.
The wrong one earns false wages, But the one sowing righteousness, a true reward.
He who lacks heart despises his neighbour, But a man of understanding keeps silence.
The defiled one destroys his neighbour with his mouth, But the righteous is delivered by knowledge.
See, they belch out with their mouth, Swords are in their lips, For who is listening?
My being is in the midst of lions; I lie among those who breathe fire, Whose teeth are spears and arrows, And their tongue is a sharp sword.
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And He has prepared for Himself instruments of death, He makes His arrows hot for pursuers.
The words of a slanderer are like delicacies, And they go down into the inner parts of the heart.
Therefore thus said יהוה of hosts, “See, I shall refine them, and shall try them, for what shall I do because of the daughter of My people?