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Coals, pits, and returning verbal harm visualize the judgment requested against violent slanderers.
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Psalms 140:9-11

evil will hunt down a violent man to his ruin

the venom of a viper is under their lips · Psalms 140

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9As for the head of those who surround me, let the trouble from their lips cover them.

10May they rain coals upon them; may he cast them into the fire, into deep pits, never to rise again.

11A slanderer will not be established in the land; evil will hunt down a violent man to his ruin.

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