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Psalms 58
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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