Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible RHE
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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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Do you indeed decree what is right, you gods? Do you judge people fairly?
2 (57-3) For in your heart you work iniquity: your hands forge injustice in the earth.
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No, in your hearts you devise wrongs; your hands deal out violence on earth.
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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The wicked go astray from the womb; they err from their birth, speaking lies.
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 have venom like the venom of a serpent, like the deaf adder that stops its ear,
5 (57-6) Which will not hear the voice of the charmers; nor of the wizard that charmeth wisely.
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so that it does not hear the voice of charmers or of the cunning enchanter.
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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O God, break the teeth in their mouths; tear out the fangs of the young 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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Let them vanish like water that runs away; like grass let them be trodden down and wither.
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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Let them be like the snail that dissolves into slime; like the untimely birth that never sees 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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Sooner than your pots can feel the heat of thorns, whether green or ablaze, may he sweep them away!
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 righteous will rejoice when they see vengeance done; they will bathe 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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People will say, "Surely there is a reward for the righteous; surely there is a God who judges on earth."
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