Psalm 58 (Revised Standard Version w/ Apocrypha)
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To the choirmaster: according to Do Not Destroy. A Miktam of David. Do you indeed decree what is right, you gods? Do you judge the sons of men uprightly?
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Nay, in your hearts you devise wrongs; your hands deal out violence on earth.
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The wicked go astray from the womb, they err from their birth, speaking lies.
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They have venom like the venom of a serpent, like the deaf adder that stops its ear,
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so that it does not hear the voice of charmers or of the cunning enchanter.
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O God, break the teeth in their mouths; tear out the fangs of the young lions, O LORD!
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Let them vanish like water that runs away; like grass let them be trodden down and wither.
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Let them be like the snail which dissolves into slime, like the untimely birth that never sees the sun.
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Sooner than your pots can feel the heat of thorns, whether green or ablaze, may he sweep them away!
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The righteous will rejoice when he sees the vengeance; he will bathe his feet in the blood of the wicked.
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Men will say, "Surely there is a reward for the righteous; surely there is a God who judges on earth."
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. (Revised Standard Version w/ Apocrypha)
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