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The Book of Psalms

 

Chapter 58

 

 

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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?

    
 
 

2.

 

Nay, in heart ye work wickedness; Ye weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.

    
 
 

3.

 

The wicked are estranged from the womb: They go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

    
 
 

4.

 

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.

    
 
 

6.

 

Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: Break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Jehovah.

    
 
 

7.

 

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.

    
 
 

9.

 

Before your pots can feel the thorns, He will take them away with a whirlwind, the green and the burning alike.

    
 
 

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. For the Chief Musician; [set to] Al-tashheth. [A Psalm] of David. Michtam; when Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him.

    
 
 

Psalms 59

 

 

 

 

 
 
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