058:001
Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?

058:002
Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.

058:003
The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.

058:004
Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;

058:005
Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.

058:006
Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.

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058:007
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.

058:008
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.

058:009
Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.

058:010
The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.

058:011
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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