26 lines
1.1 KiB
Markdown
26 lines
1.1 KiB
Markdown
# Chapter 58
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1 Do you indeed speak righteousness, you silent ones?
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Do you judge uprightly, you sons of men?
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2 No, in heart you work wickedness;
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You weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.
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3 The wicked are estranged from the womb;
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They go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
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4 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent;
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They are like the deaf cobra that stops its ear,
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5 Which will not heed the voice of charmers,
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Charming ever so skillfully.
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6 Break their teeth in their mouth, O God!
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Break out the fangs of the young lions, O Lord!
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7 Let them flow away as waters which run continually;
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When he bends his bow,
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Let his arrows be as if cut in pieces.
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8 Let them be like a snail which melts away as it goes,
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Like a stillborn child of a woman, that they may not see the sun.
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9 Before your pots can feel the burning thorns,
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He shall take them away as with a whirlwind,
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As in His living and burning wrath.
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10 The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance;
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He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked,
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11 So that men will say,
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“Surely there is a reward for the righteous;
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Surely He is God who judges in the earth.” |