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To the chief Musician, Al-taschith, Michtam of David. Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
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2
Yes, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
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3
The wicked are estranged from their birth: they go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
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Their poison [is] like the poison of a serpent: [they are] like the deaf adder [that] stoppeth her ear;
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Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
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Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.
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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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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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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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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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So that a man shall say, Verily [there is] a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.
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