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Psalms 58
Prayer for the Punishment of the Wicked.
1 Do you indeed (F1)speak righteousness, you (F2)gods?
Do you (C1)judge (F3)fairly, you sons of mankind?
2 No, in heart you (C1)practice injustice;
On earth you (C2)clear a way for the violence of your hands.
3 The wicked have turned away (C1)from the womb;
These who speak lies (C2)go astray from (F1)birth.
4 They have venom like the (C1)venom of a serpent;
Like a deaf cobra that stops up its ear,
5 So that it (C1)does not hear the voice of (F1)(C2)charmers,
Or a skillful caster of spells.
6 God, (C1)shatter their teeth in their mouth;
Break out the fangs of the young lions, LORD.
7 May they (C1)flow away like water that runs off;
When he (F1)(C2)aims his arrows, may they be as (F2)headless shafts.
8 May they be like a snail which goes along in slime,
Like the (C1)miscarriage of a woman that never sees the sun.
9 Before your (C1)pots can feel the fire of thorns
He will (C2)sweep them away with a whirlwind, the (F1)green and the burning alike.
10 The (C1)righteous will rejoice when he (C2)sees vengeance;
He will (C3)wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
11 And people will say, "There certainly is (F1)(C1)a reward for the righteous;
There certainly is a God who (C2)judges on the earth!"
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