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1 Do you rulers indeed speak justly? Do you judge people with equity?
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Do you really speak [what is] right [when] silent? [Do] you judge fairly the children of humankind?
2 No, in your heart you devise injustice, and your hands mete out violence on the earth.
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No, in [your] heart you plan injustices; in the land you weigh out the violence of your hands.
3 Even from birth the wicked go astray; from the womb they are wayward, spreading lies.
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The wicked are estranged from [the] womb. They go astray from [the] belly, speaking lies.
4 Their venom is like the venom of a snake, like that of a cobra that has stopped its ears,
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Their venom [is] like snake venom; [They are] like a deaf viper that closes its ear
5 that will not heed the tune of the charmer, however skillful the enchanter may be.
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so that it does not hear [the] voice of charmers [or the] skilled caster of spells.
6 Break the teeth in their mouths, O God; LORD, tear out the fangs of those lions!
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O God, break their teeth in their mouth. Break off [the] fangs of [the] young lions, O Yahweh.
7 Let them vanish like water that flows away; when they draw the bow, let their arrows fall short.
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Let them run [away] like water [that] runs off. [When] he bends [the bow], let his arrows [be] as though they were cut off.
8 May they be like a slug that melts away as it moves along, like a stillborn child that never sees the sun.
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[Let them be] like a snail [that] melts away [as] it goes; [like the] stillborn of woman [that] do not see [the] sun.
9 Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns— whether they be green or dry—the wicked will be swept away.
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Before your pots can feel [the heat of] a thornbush, whether green [or] {dry}, he will sweep it away.
10 The righteous will be glad when they are avenged, when they dip their feet in the blood of the wicked.
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[The] righteous will rejoice when he sees [the] vengeance; he will wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
11 Then people will say, “Surely the righteous still are rewarded; surely there is a God who judges the earth.”
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And people will say, "Surely [there is] a {reward} for the righteous. Surely there is a God [who] judges in the land."
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