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Psalms Chapter 58

1aTo the choirmaster, Al-tashcheth.↑

A Golden Psalm of David.

1bIs there indeed silence

When you should speak righteously?

Do you judge uprightly,

O sons of Adam?

2Indeed, in your heart you commit iniquitous things,

And you mete out the violence of your hands on the earth.

3The wicked have been estranged since their time in the womb;

They have erred since their time in the belly,

Speaking falsehood.

4They have venom like serpents' venom;

They are like a deaf viper

That shuts its ear,

5That does not listen to the voice of charmers,

Nor the sagacious spellbinder.

6O God, break their teeth in their mouth;

Wrench out the incisors of lions, O Lord.

7May they melt away as water flows its way.

As soon as one attaches his arrow to his bow,

May they be like those who are cut off.

8Like a snail which melts as it goes;

Like a woman's miscarriage,

May they not see the sun.

9Before your pots are aware of the blackthorn fire,

As one minute living, another minute over a fire,

He will sweep them away.

10The righteous man will rejoice;

When he has seen vengeance,

He will wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.

11And a man will say,

There is indeed fruit for the righteous.

There is indeed a God

Judging on the earth.”

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