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Chapter 58
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Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do
ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men? |
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Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence
of your hands in the earth. |
3
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The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray
as soon as they be born, speaking lies. |
4
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Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they
are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear; |
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Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming
never so wisely. |
6
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Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out
the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD. |
7
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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. |
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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. |
9
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Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take
them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his
wrath. |
10
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The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance:
he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked. |
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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. |
