The offending tongue
(James 3:1-12)
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Unto the end, a psalm for David.
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Hear, O God, my prayer, when I make supplication to thee: deliver my soul from the fear of the enemy.
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Thou hast protected me from the assembly of the malignant; from the multitude of the workers of iniquity.
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For they have whetted their tongues like a sword; they have bent their bow a bitter thing,
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To shoot in secret the undefiled.
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They will shoot at him on a sudden, and will not fear: they are resolute in wickedness. They have talked of hiding snares; they have said: Who shall see them?
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They have searched after iniquities: they have failed in their search. Man shall come to a deep heart:
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And God shall be exalted. The arrows of children are their wounds:
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And their tongues against them are made weak. All that saw them were troubled;
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And every man was afraid. And they declared the works of God: and understood his doings.
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The just shall rejoice in the Lord, and shall hope in him: and all the upright in heart shall be praised.