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Psalm 58

The Message Bible MSG

1 Is this any way to run a country? Is there an honest politician in the house?

2 Behind the scenes you brew cauldrons of evil, behind closed doors you make deals with demons.

3 The wicked crawl from the wrong side of the cradle; their first words out of the womb are lies.

4 Poison, lethal rattlesnake poison, drips from their forked tongues -

5 Deaf to threats, deaf to charm, decades of wax built up in their ears.

6 God, smash their teeth to bits, leave them toothless tigers.

7 Let their lives be buckets of water spilled, all that's left, a damp stain in the sand. Let them be trampled grass worn smooth by the traffic.

8 Let them dissolve into snail slime, be a miscarried fetus that never sees sunlight.

9 Before what they cook up is half-done, God, throw it out with the garbage!

10 The righteous will call up their friends when they see the wicked get their reward, Serve up their blood in goblets as they toast one another,

11 Everyone cheering, "It's worth it to play by the rules! God's handing out trophies and tending the earth!"

New Living Translation NLT

1 Justice—do you rulers know the meaning of the word? Do you judge the people fairly?

2 No! You plot injustice in your hearts. You spread violence throughout the land.

3 These wicked people are born sinners; even from birth they have lied and gone their own way.

4 They spit venom like deadly snakes; they are like cobras that refuse to listen,

5 ignoring the tunes of the snake charmers, no matter how skillfully they play.

6 Break off their fangs, O God! Smash the jaws of these lions, O LORD !

7 May they disappear like water into thirsty ground. Make their weapons useless in their hands.

8 May they be like snails that dissolve into slime, like a stillborn child who will never see the sun.

9 God will sweep them away, both young and old, faster than a pot heats over burning thorns.

10 The godly will rejoice when they see injustice avenged. They will wash their feet in the blood of the wicked.

11 Then at last everyone will say, “There truly is a reward for those who live for God; surely there is a God who judges justly here on earth.”