GOD'S WORD Translation GW
New King James Version NKJV
1 Do you rulers really give fair verdicts? Do you judge Adam's descendants fairly?
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To the Chief Musician. Set to 'Do Not Destroy.' A Michtam of David. Do you indeed speak righteousness, you silent ones? Do you judge uprightly, you sons of men?
2 No, you invent new crimes on earth, and your hands spread violence.
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No, in heart you work wickedness; You weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.
3 [Even] inside the womb wicked people are strangers [to God]. From their birth liars go astray.
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The wicked are estranged from the womb; They go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
4 They have poisonous venom like snakes. They are like a deaf cobra that shuts its ears
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Their poison is like the poison of a serpent; They are like the deaf cobra that stops its ear,
5 so that it cannot hear the voice of a snake charmer or of anyone trained to cast spells.
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Which will not heed the voice of charmers, Charming ever so skillfully.
6 O God, knock the teeth out of their mouths. Break the young lions' teeth, O LORD.
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Break their teeth in their mouth, O God! Break out the fangs of the young lions, O Lord!
7 Let them disappear like water that drains away. When they aim their bows, let their arrows miss the target.
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Let them flow away as waters which run continually; When he bends his bow, Let his arrows be as if cut in pieces.
8 Let them become like a snail that leaves behind a slimy trail or like a stillborn child who never sees the sun.
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Let them be like a snail which melts away as it goes, Like a stillborn child of a woman, that they may not see the sun.
9 Let [God] sweep them away faster than a cooking pot is heated by burning twigs.
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Before your pots can feel the burning thorns, He shall take them away as with a whirlwind, As in His living and burning wrath.
10 Righteous people will rejoice when they see [God] take revenge. They will wash their feet in the blood of wicked people.
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The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance; He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked,
11 Then people will say, "Righteous people certainly have a reward. There is a God who judges on earth."
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So that men will say, "Surely there is a reward for the righteous; Surely He is God who judges in the earth."