Explore any book, chapter, or verse with the passage bar below. Use VP → (verse parallel) beside a verse to read it across translations.
1
To the chief Musician. 'Destroy not.' Of David. Michtam. Is righteousness indeed silent? Do ye speak it? Do ye judge with equity, ye sons of men?
VP →
2
Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.
VP →
3
The wicked go astray from the womb; they err as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
VP →
4
Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: [they are] like the deaf adder which stoppeth her ear;
VP →
5
Which doth not hearken to the voice of enchanters, of one charming ever so wisely.
VP →
6
O God, break their teeth in their mouth; break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Jehovah.
VP →
7
Let them melt away as waters that flow off; when he aimeth his arrows, let them be as blunted:
VP →
8
Let them be as a snail that melteth as it passeth away; [like] the untimely birth of a woman, let them not see the sun.
VP →
9
Before your pots feel the thorns, green or burning, — they shall be whirled away.
VP →
10
The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance; he shall wash his footsteps in the blood of the wicked:
VP →
11
And men shall say, Verily there is fruit for the righteous; verily there is a God that judgeth in the earth.
VP →
Swipe left for the next chapter, right for the previous chapter.