Psalms 58 : 1 (ESV)
TO THE CHOIRMASTER: ACCORDING TO DO NOT DESTROY. A MIKTAM OF DAVID. Do you indeed decree what is right, you gods? Do you judge the children of man uprightly?
Psalms 58 : 2 (ESV)
No, in your hearts you devise wrongs; your hands deal out violence on earth.
Psalms 58 : 3 (ESV)
The wicked are estranged from the womb; they go astray from birth, speaking lies.
Psalms 58 : 4 (ESV)
They have venom like the venom of a serpent, like the deaf adder that stops its ear,
Psalms 58 : 5 (ESV)
so that it does not hear the voice of charmers or of the cunning enchanter.
Psalms 58 : 6 (ESV)
O God, break the teeth in their mouths; tear out the fangs of the young lions, O LORD!
Psalms 58 : 7 (ESV)
Let them vanish like water that runs away; when he aims his arrows, let them be blunted.
Psalms 58 : 8 (ESV)
Let them be like the snail that dissolves into slime, like the stillborn child who never sees the sun.
Psalms 58 : 9 (ESV)
Sooner than your pots can feel the heat of thorns, whether green or ablaze, may he sweep them away!
Psalms 58 : 10 (ESV)
The righteous will rejoice when he sees the vengeance; he will bathe his feet in the blood of the wicked.
Psalms 58 : 11 (ESV)
Mankind will say, "Surely there is a reward for the righteous; surely there is a God who judges on earth."
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