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Psalm 58
Si vere utique
1
Do you indeed decree righteousness, you rulers?
do you judge the peoples with equity?
2
No; you devise evil in your hearts,
and your hands deal out violence in the land.
3
The wicked are perverse from the womb;
liars go astray from their birth.
4
They are as venomous as a serpent,
they are like the deaf adder which stops its ears,
5
Which does not heed the voice of the charmer,
no matter how skillful his charming.
6
O God, break their teeth in their mouths;
pull the fangs of the young lions, O LORD .
7
Let them vanish like water that runs off;
let them wither like trodden grass.
8
Let them be like the snail that melts away,
like a stillborn child that never sees the sun.
9
Before they bear fruit, let them be cut down like a brier;
like thorns and thistles let them be swept away.
10
The righteous will be glad when they see the vengeance;
they will bathe their feet in the blood of the wicked.
11
And they will say, "Surely, there is a reward for the righteous;
surely, there is a God who rules in the earth."