“1 <<To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David.>> Do ye
indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye
sons of men? 2 Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence
of your hands in the earth. 3 The wicked are estranged from the womb:
they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies. 4 Their poison
[is] like the poison of a serpent: [they are] like the deaf adder [that]
stoppeth her ear; 5 Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers,
charming never so wisely.”
“6 Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth
of the young lions, O LORD. 7 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. 8 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. 9 Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take
them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in [his] wrath. 10 The
righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his
feet in the blood of the wicked. 11 So that a man shall say, Verily
[there is] a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth
in the earth.” (Psalm 58:1-11 AV)
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