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20 Tyrants will be gone.
    Mockers will be finished.
    All who look for ways to do wrong will come to an end:
21 those who make people sin with words,
    those who lay traps for judges,
        those who, without any reason, deny justice
            to people who are in the right.

22 This is what Yahweh, who saved Abraham, says about the descendants of Jacob:

Jacob will no longer be ashamed.
    Jacob’s face will no longer turn pale.

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20 The ruthless(A) will vanish,(B)
    the mockers(C) will disappear,
    and all who have an eye for evil(D) will be cut down—
21 those who with a word make someone out to be guilty,
    who ensnare the defender in court(E)
    and with false testimony(F) deprive the innocent of justice.(G)

22 Therefore this is what the Lord, who redeemed(H) Abraham,(I) says to the descendants of Jacob:

“No longer will Jacob be ashamed;(J)
    no longer will their faces grow pale.(K)

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