Psalms 58

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• 1. Do you rulers indeed speak justly? Do you judge uprightly among men?
• 2. No, in your heart you devise injustice, and your hands mete out violence on the earth.
• 3. Even from birth the wicked go astray; from the womb they are wayward and speak lies.
• 4. Their venom is like the venom of a snake, like that of a cobra that has stopped its ears,
• 5. that will not heed the tune of the charmer, however skillful the enchanter may be.
• 6. Break the teeth in their mouths, O God; tear out, O LORD, the fangs of the lions!
• 7. Let them vanish like water that flows away; when they draw the bow, let their arrows be blunted.
• 8. Like a slug melting away as it moves along, like a stillborn child, may they not see the sun.
• 9. Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns- whether they be green or dry-the wicked will be swept away.
• 10. The righteous will be glad when they are avenged, when they bathe their feet in the blood of the wicked.
• 11. Then men will say, "Surely the righteous still are rewarded; surely there is a God who judges the earth."

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