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[For the Chief Musician; [set to] Al-tashheth. [A Psalm] of David. Michtam]. Do ye indeed in silence speak righteousness? Do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
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2
Nay, in heart ye work wickedness; Ye weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.
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3
The wicked are estranged from the womb: 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 hearkeneth not 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 Jehovah.
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Let them melt away as water that runneth apace: When he aimeth his arrows, let them be as though they were cut off.
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[ Let them be] as a snail which melteth and passeth away, [Like] the untimely birth of a woman, that hath not seen the sun.
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Before your pots can feel the thorns, He will take them away with a whirlwind, the green and the burning alike.
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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 men shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: Verily there is a God that judgeth in the earth.
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