Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey
and her words are[a] smoother than oil,
in the end she’s as bitter as wormwood(A)
and as sharp as a double-edged sword.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 5:3 Lit her palate is

15 Therefore, this is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: “I am about to feed this people wormwood(A) and give them poisonous water to drink.(B)

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ז Zayin

19 Remember[a] my affliction and my homelessness,(A)
the wormwood and the poison.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 3:19 Or I remember

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