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Psalms 58

1   Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
2   Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
3   The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
4   Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;
5   Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
6   Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Lord.
7   Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.
8   As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.
9   Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.
10   The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
11   So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.

 

 

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