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- Do you rulers indeed speak justly? Do you judge uprightly among men?
- No, in your heart you devise injustice, and your hands mete out violence on the earth.
- Even from birth the wicked go astray; from the womb they are wayward and speak lies.
- Their venom is like the venom of a snake, like that of a cobra that has stopped its ears,
- that will not heed the tune of the charmer, however skillful the enchanter may be.
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- Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
- Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
- The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
- Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;
- Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
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- Break the teeth in their mouths, O God; tear out, O LORD, the fangs of the lions!
- Let them vanish like water that flows away; when they draw the bow, let their arrows be blunted.
- Like a slug melting away as it moves along, like a stillborn child, may they not see the sun.
- Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns-- whether they be green or dry--the wicked will be swept away.
- The righteous will be glad when they are avenged, when they bathe their feet in the blood of the wicked.
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- Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.
- 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.
- 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.
- Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.
- The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his 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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- So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.
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