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I am the subject of gossip for those who sit in the gate, and the drunkards make songs about me.

A gossip goes about telling secrets, but one who is trustworthy in spirit keeps a confidence.

A gossip reveals secrets; therefore do not associate with a babbler.

therefore prophesy, and say: Thus says the Lord God : Because they made you desolate indeed, and crushed you from all sides, so that you became the possession of the rest of the nations, and you became an object of gossip and slander among the people;

For I fear that when I come, I may find you not as I wish, and that you may find me not as you wish; I fear that there may perhaps be quarreling, jealousy, anger, selfishness, slander, gossip, conceit, and disorder.