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1 Do you rulers indeed speak justly? Do you judge people with equity?
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(57-1) <Unto the end, destroy not, for David, for an inscription of a title.> (57-2) If in very deed ye speak justice: judge right things, ye sons of men.
2 No, in your heart you devise injustice, and your hands mete out violence on the earth.
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(57-3) For in your heart you work iniquity: your hands forge injustice in the earth.
3 Even from birth the wicked go astray; from the womb they are wayward, spreading lies.
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(57-4) The wicked are alienated from the womb; they have gone astray from the womb: they have spoken false things.
4 Their venom is like the venom of a snake, like that of a cobra that has stopped its ears,
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(57-5) Their madness is according to the likeness of a serpent: like the deaf asp that stoppeth her ears:
5 that will not heed the tune of the charmer, however skillful the enchanter may be.
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(57-6) Which will not hear the voice of the charmers; nor of the wizard that charmeth wisely.
6 Break the teeth in their mouths, O God; LORD, tear out the fangs of those lions!
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(57-7) God shall break in pieces their teeth in their mouth: the Lord shall break the grinders of the lions.
7 Let them vanish like water that flows away; when they draw the bow, let their arrows fall short.
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(57-8) They shall come to nothing, like water running down; he hath bent his bow till they be weakened.
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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(57-9) Like wax that melteth they shall be taken away: fire hath fallen on them, and they shall 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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(57-10) Before your thorns could know the brier; he swalloweth them up, as alive, in his wrath.
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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(57-11) The just shall rejoice when he shall see the revenge: he shall wash his hands in the blood of the sinner.
11 Then people will say, “Surely the righteous still are rewarded; surely there is a God who judges the earth.”
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(57-12) And man shall say: If indeed there be fruit to the just: there is indeed a God that judgeth them on the earth.
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