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Thursday, November 21st, 2024
the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
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Psalms 58

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God Who Judges the Earth

To the choirmaster: according to (a)Do Not Destroy. A (b)Miktam[a] of David.

1 Do you indeed decree what is right, you gods?[b]
    Do you judge the children of man uprightly?
2 No, in your hearts you devise wrongs;
    your hands (c)deal out violence on earth.

3 The wicked are (d)estranged from the womb;
    they go astray from birth, speaking lies.
4 (e)They have venom like the venom of a serpent,
    like the deaf adder that stops its ear,
5 so that it (f)does not hear the voice of charmers
    or of the cunning enchanter.

6 O God, (g)break the teeth in their mouths;
    tear out the fangs of the young lions, O Lord!
7 Let them (h)vanish like water that runs away;
    when he (i)aims his arrows, let them be blunted.
8 Let them be like the snail (j)that dissolves into slime,
    like (k)the stillborn child who never sees the sun.
9 Sooner than your pots can feel the heat of (l)thorns,
    whether green or ablaze, may he (m)sweep them away![c]

10 (n)The righteous will rejoice when he sees the vengeance;
    he will (o)bathe his feet in the blood of the wicked.
11 Mankind will say, "Surely there is (p)a reward for the righteous;
    surely there is a God who (q)judges on earth."

 
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