Young's Literal Translation YLT
Holman Christian Standard Bible CSB
1 To the Overseer. -- `Destroy not.' -- A secret treasure, by David. Is it true, O dumb one, righteously ye speak? Uprightly ye judge, O sons of men?
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Do you really speak righteously, you mighty ones? Do you judge people fairly?
2 Even in heart ye work iniquities, In the land the violence of your hands ye ponder.
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No, you practice injustice in your hearts; with your hands you weigh out violence in the land.
3 The wicked have been estranged from the womb, They have erred from the belly, speaking lies.
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The wicked go astray from the womb; liars err from birth.
4 Their poison [is] as poison of a serpent, As a deaf asp shutting its ear,
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They have venom like the venom of a snake, like the deaf cobra that stops up its ears,
5 Which hearkeneth not to the voice of whisperers, A charmer of charms most skilful.
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that does not listen to the sound of the charmers who skillfully weave spells.
6 O God, break their teeth in their mouth, The jaw-teeth of young lions break down, O Jehovah.
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God, knock the teeth out of their mouths; Lord, tear out the young lions' fangs.
7 They are melted as waters, They go up and down for themselves, His arrow proceedeth as they cut themselves off.
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They will vanish like water that flows by; they will aim their useless arrows.
8 As a snail that melteth he goeth on, [As] an untimely birth of a woman, They have not seen the sun.
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Like a slug that moves along in slime, like a woman's miscarried [child], they will not see the sun.
9 Before your pots discern the bramble, As well the raw as the heated He whirleth away.
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Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns- whether green or burning- He will sweep them away.
10 The righteous rejoiceth that he hath seen vengeance, His steps he washeth in the blood of the wicked.
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The righteous will rejoice when he sees the retribution; he will wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
11 And man saith: `Surely fruit [is] for the righteous: Surely there is a God judging in the earth!'
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Then people will say, "Yes, there is a reward for the righteous! There is a God who judges on earth!"
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