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[For the director of music. [To the tune of] "Do Not Destroy". Of David. A miktam.] Do you rulers indeed speak justly? Do you judge uprightly among men? |
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No, in your heart you devise injustice, and your hands mete out violence on the earth. |
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Even from birth the wicked go astray; from the womb they are wayward and speak lies. |
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Their venom is like the venom of a snake, like that of a cobra that has stopped its ears, |
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that will not heed the tune of the charmer, however skilful the enchanter may be. |
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Break the teeth in their mouths, O God; tear out, O LORD, the fangs of the lions! |
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Let them vanish like water that flows away; when they draw the bow, let their arrows be blunted. |
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Like a slug melting away as it moves along, like a stillborn child, may they not see the sun. |
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Before your pots can feel [the heat of] the thorns--whether they be green or dry--the wicked will be swept away. |
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The righteous will be glad when they are avenged, when they bathe their feet in the blood of the wicked. |
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Then men will say, "Surely the righteous still are rewarded; surely there is a God who judges the earth." |
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