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 \v 2 If only someone would give me a place for travelers in the wilderness to stay, where I could go to abandon my people.
 \q If only I could leave them, since all of them are adulterers, a band of traitors!
 \q
-\v 3 Yahweh declares, "They tread on their bows of lies with their tongues,
+\v 3 Yahweh declares, "They bend their tongues like their bows for lies
 \q but it is not because of any faithfulness of theirs that they grow strong on the earth.
 \q They go from one wicked act to another. They do not know me."