Psa. 58
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1Do you indeed, O 
2judges, speak righteousness? 
Do you judge in uprightness, O sons of men?				
 
				
					
						
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No, in heart you perform injustice; 
You weigh out the violence of your hands on earth.				
 
				
					
						
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The wicked are estranged from the womb; 
They err from 
their birth, speaking lies.				
 
				
					
						
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Their venom is like the venom of a serpent; 
They are like the deaf cobra that has shut its ear,				
 
				
					
						
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Which does not hear the sound of the charmers 
Or the wise spellbinder.				
 
				
					
						
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O God, break their teeth in their mouth; 
Break off the fangs of the young lions, O Jehovah.				
 
				
					
						
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Let them melt like water that runs off. 
When he shoots his arrows, 
Let them be as though they were cut off.				
 
				
					
						
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Let them be like a snail that melts and goes away, 
Like a woman’s miscarriage, which by no means sees the sun.				
 
				
					
						
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Before your pots can feel 
the fire of the thorns, 
Whether green or burning, He will sweep them away.				
 
				
					
						
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The righteous man will rejoice when he sees vengeance; 
He will wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.				
 
				
					
						
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And men will say, Indeed there is fruit for the righteous man; 
Indeed there is a God who 
ajudges on earth.