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Saturday, November 23rd, 2024
the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
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Good News Translation

Psalms 58

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A Prayer for God to Punish the Wicked[a]

1 Do you rulers[b] ever give a just decision?
    Do you judge everyone fairly?
2 No! You think only of the evil you can do,
    and commit crimes of violence in the land.

3 Evildoers go wrong all their lives;
    they tell lies from the day they are born.
4 They are full of poison like snakes;
    they stop up their ears like a deaf cobra,
5 which does not hear the voice of the snake charmer,
    or the chant of the clever magician.

6 Break the teeth of these fierce lions, O God.
7 May they disappear like water draining away;
    may they be crushed like weeds on a path.[c]
8 May they be like snails that dissolve into slime;
    may they be like a baby born dead that never sees the light.
9 Before they know it, they are cut down like weeds;
    in his fierce anger God will blow them away
    while they are still living.[d]

10 The righteous will be glad when they see sinners punished;
    they will wade through the blood of the wicked.
11 People will say, "The righteous are indeed rewarded;
    there is indeed a God who judges the world."

 
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