The Complete Jewish Bible CJB
King James Version KJV
1 For the leader. Set to "Do Not Destroy." By David, a mikhtam: [Rulers,] does your silence really speak justice? Are you judging people fairly?
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Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
2 [No!] In your hearts you devise wrongs, your hands dispense violence in the land.
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Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
3 From the womb, the wicked are estranged, liars on the wrong path since birth.
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The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
4 Their venom is like snake's venom; they are like a serpent that stops its ears,
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Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;
5 so as not to hear the voice of the charmer, no matter how well he plays.
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Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
6 God, break their teeth in their mouth! Shatter the fangs of these lions, ADONAI!
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Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.
7 May they vanish like water that drains away. May their arrows be blunted when they aim their bows.
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Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.
8 May they be like a slug that melts as it moves, like a stillborn baby that never sees the sun.
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As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.
9 Before your cook-pots feel the heat of the burning thorns, may he blow them away, green and blazing alike.
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Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.
10 The righteous will rejoice to see vengeance done, they will wash their feet in the blood of the wicked;
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The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
11 and people will say, "Yes, the righteous are rewarded; there is, after all, a God who judges the earth."
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So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.
Complete Jewish Bible Copyright 1998 by David H. Stern. Published by Jewish New Testament Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
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