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New Revised Standard NRS
1 Do you really speak what is right, you gods? Do you really judge humans fairly?
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Do you indeed decree what is right, you gods? Do you judge people fairly?
2 No: in your hearts you plan injustice; your hands do violence on the earth.
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No, in your hearts you devise wrongs; your hands deal out violence on earth.
3 The wicked backslide from the womb; liars go astray from birth.
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The wicked go astray from the womb; they err from their birth, speaking lies.
4 Their venom is like a snake's venom— like a deaf cobra's—one that shuts its ears
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They have venom like the venom of a serpent, like the deaf adder that stops its ear,
5 so it can't hear the snake charmer's voice or the spells of a skillful enchanter.
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so that it does not hear the voice of charmers or of the cunning enchanter.
6 God, break their teeth out of their mouths! Tear out the lions' jawbones, LORD!
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O God, break the teeth in their mouths; tear out the fangs of the young lions, O Lord!
7 Let them dissolve like water flowing away. When they bend the bow, let their arrows be like headless shafts.
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Let them vanish like water that runs away; like grass let them be trodden down and wither.
8 Like the snail that dissolves into slime, like a woman's stillborn child, let them never see the sun.
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Let them be like the snail that dissolves into slime; like the untimely birth that never sees the sun.
9 Before your pots feel the thorns, whether green or burned up, God will sweep them away!
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Sooner than your pots can feel the heat of thorns, whether green or ablaze, may he sweep them away!
10 But the righteous will rejoice when they see vengeance done, when they wash their feet in the blood of the wicked.
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The righteous will rejoice when they see vengeance done; they will bathe their feet in the blood of the wicked.
11 Then it will be said: "Yes, there is a reward for the righteous! Yes, there is a God who judges people on the earth."
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People will say, "Surely there is a reward for the righteous; surely there is a God who judges on earth."
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