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1 Do you rulers indeed speak justly? Do you judge people with equity?
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<<To the chief musician: Altaschith. Michtam of David.>> Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? Do ye judge uprightly, O 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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Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh out violence by your hands in the earth.
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 as soon as they are born, 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 poison is like the poison of a serpent; they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear,
5 that will not heed the tune of the charmer, however skillful the enchanter may be.
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which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charm they ever so wisely.
6 Break the teeth in their mouths, O God; LORD, tear out the fangs of those lions!
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Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth; break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD!
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 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 away as it moves along, like a stillborn child 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 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 thorns, He shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and 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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The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance; he shall 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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so that a man shall say, "Verily there is a reward for the righteous; verily He is a God that judgeth on the earth."
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