Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible RHE
New Living Translation NLT
1 (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.
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Justice—do you rulers know the meaning of the word? Do you judge the people fairly?
2 (57-3) For in your heart you work iniquity: your hands forge injustice in the earth.
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No! You plot injustice in your hearts. You spread violence throughout the land.
3 (57-4) The wicked are alienated from the womb; they have gone astray from the womb: they have spoken false things.
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These wicked people are born sinners; even from birth they have lied and gone their own way.
4 (57-5) Their madness is according to the likeness of a serpent: like the deaf asp that stoppeth her ears:
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They spit venom like deadly snakes; they are like cobras that refuse to listen,
5 (57-6) Which will not hear the voice of the charmers; nor of the wizard that charmeth wisely.
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ignoring the tunes of the snake charmers, no matter how skillfully they play.
6 (57-7) God shall break in pieces their teeth in their mouth: the Lord shall break the grinders of the lions.
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Break off their fangs, O God! Smash the jaws of these lions, O LORD !
7 (57-8) They shall come to nothing, like water running down; he hath bent his bow till they be weakened.
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May they disappear like water into thirsty ground. Make their weapons useless in their hands.
8 (57-9) Like wax that melteth they shall be taken away: fire hath fallen on them, and they shall not see the sun.
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May they be like snails that dissolve into slime, like a stillborn child who will never see the sun.
9 (57-10) Before your thorns could know the brier; he swalloweth them up, as alive, in his wrath.
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God will sweep them away, both young and old, faster than a pot heats over burning thorns.
10 (57-11) The just shall rejoice when he shall see the revenge: he shall wash his hands in the blood of the sinner.
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The godly will rejoice when they see injustice avenged. They will wash their feet in the blood of the wicked.
11 (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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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.”