4. Your words spread poisonlike the bite of a cobra
5. that refuses to listento the snake charmer.
6. My enemies are fierceas lions, Lord God!Shatter their teeth.Snatch out their fangs.
7. Make them disappearlike leaking water,and make their arrows miss.
8. Let them dry up like snailsor be like a child that diesbefore seeing the sun.
9. Wipe them out quickerthan a pot can be heatedby setting thorns on fire.