Third Millennium Bible TMB
GOD'S WORD Translation GW
1 <<To the chief musician: Altaschith. Michtam of David.>> Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? Do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
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Do you rulers really give fair verdicts? Do you judge Adam's descendants fairly?
2 Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh out violence by your hands in the earth.
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No, you invent new crimes on earth, and your hands spread violence.
3 The wicked are estranged from the womb; they go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
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[Even] inside the womb wicked people are strangers [to God]. From their birth liars go astray.
4 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent; they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear,
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They have poisonous venom like snakes. They are like a deaf cobra that shuts its ears
5 which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charm they ever so wisely.
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so that it cannot hear the voice of a snake charmer or of anyone trained to cast spells.
6 Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth; break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD!
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O God, knock the teeth out of their mouths. Break the young lions' teeth, O LORD.
7 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.
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Let them disappear like water that drains away. When they aim their bows, let their arrows miss the target.
8 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.
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Let them become like a snail that leaves behind a slimy trail or like a stillborn child who never sees the sun.
9 Before your pots can feel the thorns, He shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in His wrath.
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Let [God] sweep them away faster than a cooking pot is heated by burning twigs.
10 The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance; he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked,
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Righteous people will rejoice when they see [God] take revenge. They will wash their feet in the blood of wicked people.
11 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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Then people will say, "Righteous people certainly have a reward. There is a God who judges on earth."
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